Posted on 01/08/2008 9:12:29 AM PST by Beckwith
Course Description:
Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn't mean that you don't have to learn how to become one.
This course will examine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay male identity. We will approach it from three angles: (1) as a sub-cultural practice — subtle, complex, and difficult to theorize — which a small but significant body of work in queer studies has begun to explore; (2) as a theme in gay male writing; and (3) as a class project, since the course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand.
In particular, we will examine a number of cultural artifacts and activities that seem to play a prominent role in learning how to be gay: Hollywood movies, grand opera, Broadway musicals, and other works of classical and popular music, as well as camp, diva-worship, drag, muscle culture, taste, style, and political activism. Are there a number of classically 'gay' works such that, despite changing tastes and generations, all gay men, of whatever class, race, or ethnicity, need to know them, in order to be gay? What is there about gay identity that explains the gay appropriation of these works? What do we learn about gay male identity by asking not who gay men are but what it is that gay men do or like? One aim of exploring these questions is to approach gay identity from the perspective of social practices and cultural identifications rather than from the perspective of gay sexuality itself. What can such an approach tell us about the sentimental, affective, or subjective dimensions of gay identity, including gay sexuality, that an exclusive focus on gay sexuality cannot?
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A tax-funded institution of higher learning. Good thing I haven't had lunch yet, or I'd be sick all over the place.
Why is it that students fight to attend UM?
No wonder so many college graduates reportedly can’t find jobs “appropriate to their educational level.”
The practical exams must s...tink.
For some time now, U of M has been the showroom model for agenda-driven pseudoeducation. Oh, but they did win their bowl game, I think.
sounds like a sleeper course. watch a bunch of will and grace, and all streisand’s movies. learn the lyrics to all songs by streisand, minelli, cline, and garland, as well as all the showtunes.
get a dorothy gale outfit.
dress in womens clothing.
work out for tone, not for strength or health reasons.
get a rainbow flag.
get subscriptions to cosmo, vogue, and 17 (for the pics of the young hot guys)
vote dem.
any more questions?
Garland and her ilk sang the pop music of their day. Showtunes were the pop music of the pre-Rock era. Do you think all the men who liked it back then were gay? That stereotype needs to die.
everything i listed is a ridiculous “gay” stereotype.
that was the point.
smile, laugh, don’t have such a negative outlook. :)
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Not surprising that U of Michigan would have this course. LOL
Does this mean that they're going out into the field to pick up some chickens for class credit?
Shwell
Will the penchant for little boys be addressed with a special report from the homosexual subcommittee on the man-boy love relationship? Syllabus will include techniques in finding a rectum in a filthy public restroom, felching at the rest stop, rimming to enhance gastroenteritis, how to avoid ingesting excess fecal material, and the use of rodents to enhance gay pleasure.
I resent that this course implies that opera and classical music is only listened to by GAY males. I’m straight, and I enjoy opera and classical music.
Talk about reinforcing stereotypes, this course just shoves them in our faces and says, ‘ACCEPT THIS BUT DON’T REINFORCE IT!!!’
Proof of my premise is most "gay" people go through a great deal of psychological torture. Moreover, the greatest hallmakr of "gayness" is that of vacilation. Furthermore, the fact that a great majority of "gays" have this extreme need to affirm their sexuality in public so as to lend credence to their "gayness" (as opposed to the mere heterosexual who prefers to have sex in private).
When's the last time all of you heterosecuals had serious doubts concerning/respecting your sexuality? The thing about "gayness" is that well over 90% have had doubts about their "gayness". And why stop there, a significant majority of those professing the "gay" lifestyle, have doubted whether or not they were actually "gay" at least once in their life.
The qwexion distills down to whether or not a heterosexual porn-addict is any better than a "gay" person? Or are any of those people any worse than that person who see's their restaurant bill as being unfairly in their favor, and they resolve to just walk out of the establishment (and not pay for whatever)?
Or, are any of those people better than Ted Bundy?
Answer: NO.
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