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The objective of the research was to identify possible influences on formation of positive and negative attitudes towards homosexuality. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews the authors identified probable influences on a positive attitude formation: a) predominant positive experiences with a homosexual person, b) conviction that homosexual persons are same as the attitude holder, c) utilization of homosexual persons as the most important and most trustworthy sources of information about homosexuality, d) passivity or absence of a father's opinion influence and simultaneously a tolerance towards homosexuality from a mother's side in a family. For a negative attitude formation the authors introduce the following influences: a) conviction of abnormality of homosexuality, conviction of homosexuality being an illness or a deviation, or homosexuality as a phenomenon against the nature, b) unpleasant feelings from a visualization of a homosexual sexual intercourse or physical contact, c) conviction of unacceptability of children upbringing by homosexual couples, d) fears of molestation from homosexual men side in relation to predominante negative personal experiences with homosexuals (valid for heterosexual men only).
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Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz's homosexual texts - specific as they are, owing to the specificity of the discourse, the psychosexual, social and cultural construction of the author within the text - are disturbing with their peculiar aura. The stories told are usually discontinuous, unclear and inexplicable. The topic of a 'different love' is masked, shown indirectly, or even if it seems open or neutral, it gets entangled in a net of embroiled, if not contradictory, addresser's intentions ('Przyjaciele' (Friends), 'Mefisto - Walc' (Mephisto Waltz)), or becomes the subject of an elaborate literary game, be it stylisation ('Czwarta symfonia' (The Fourth Symphony)), suspense, or 'self-thematism' ('Nauczyciel' (The Teacher), 'Martwa pasieka' (A dead apiary)). Such signals enable a double reading, which is accessible to 'initiate' readers. But they are also a sign of a double nature of the world, which - according to German Ritz - is part of any homosexual experience. In Iwaszkiewicz, the homosexual identity is never expressed out loud and never gets integrated. It is generated by confirmation concurrent with negation, camouflage and allusiveness or provocative openness, is interrelated with a voyeuristic attitude ('Tatarak' (The sweet rush)) and liberates through sublimation.
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The authoress analyses 'Bent', a Sean Mathias film from 1997. The action of the movie takes place in the 1930s, in Nazi controlled Germany. The main character of the film, Max (Clive Owen) ends up in concentration camp in Dachau, where he refuses to admit to his homosexuality, but presents himself as a Jew. As a consequence on his prison garment there is a yellow Star of David instead of a pink triangle. During the transport to Dachau, Max meets Horst (Lothaire Blumenau), who wears his pink triangle with pride. In the last scene of the film Max also puts on prison clothes with the pink triangle badge, and it becomes clear that the film is about his search for identity. The authoress highlights the theatrical artificiality with which the film was made. She identifies it as a pursuit of the effect of otherness that is known from Bertold Brecht's dramas, but in her analysis and search of theatrical analogies, she goes one step further, and in the plain and reserved form of the film, its drama like quality, its rhythm and symbolism she finds echoes of Samuel Becket's plays and style, thus allowing her to classify 'Bent' as a film in the style of Becket.
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Homosexuality was present throughout history: there were times when it was disapproved and condemned; next it was defined as a disease and later, as a norm-breaking act. Nowadays in a number of countries it is a lifestyle based on free choice. Homosexuality is being surrounded by stereotypes even today, which may be ascribable to the fact that characteristics of homosexual people are hard to detect due to their hidden nature. The main goal of the present study has been to map the opinions of homosexuals of themselves and opinions of heterosexuals of the homosexuals. The opinions are interpreted in the light of the most common stereotypes. Structured interviews were made with 11 heterosexual and 10 homosexual subjects. Results show that the delinquency and disease discourses, apart from a few exceptions, are not part of the stereotypes. As it has been detected, stereotypes have a reality base, in addition, in many cases stereotypes are accepted by the homosexuals themselves.
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The paper is based on the analysis of 60 formalized interviews with participants of the course From Sex to Gender, from Gender to Quire conducted by the author in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in May, 2011. One third of the questioned had the experience of heterosexual relations, the other one third had predominately homosexual relations, though 80% of them had the experience of heterosexual relations as well. The research is focused on the problem of confidential relations formed between hetero- and homosexuals and their nearest and dearest. It follows from the data obtained that parents and other members of the family are not the nearest confidents either for hetero- or for homosexuals. But while the former in the course of time go through the process of “reunification” with parents and confide to them (minimum to mother), the latter do not: most homo- and bisexuals do not make coming out before their parents, hence the latter have a rather approximate idea about life of their children, things important for them and what are they anxious about. In other words the process of estrangement of young men-homosexuals and girls-lesbians from their parents, which is normal in juvenile age, is not temporary, but at least long-term one.
World Literature Studies
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2016
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vol. 8
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issue 1
86 – 97
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This study provides the synoptic treatment of the self-representation strategies of the homosexual poetry in (post)modern Hungarian literature using the matrix of Christopher Reed. Reed constructs a matrix of interpretation between the concepts of homosexuality and the relationship of art to homosexuality. I am focusing on the analysis of the conceptual forms which are getting on as the sexual encounters – in which one person is perceived as transcending gender norms –, or as the separate identity, or as performative role without permanent core identity. In five chapters I am dealing with the survival of male ancient homoerotic tradition (poetry of J. Berda and M. Babits), with the erotic and associative interpretation strategies in the zone of the transcending of gender norms (poetry of Gy. Faludy, J. Pilinszky and P. Toldalagi), with the strategies of Hungarian gay subculture (poetry published in subcultural periodical called Mások), with the concepts of the separate gay identities (poetry of A. Gerevich, J. Rosmer and Á. Nádasdy) and with the poetical performative roles as self-conscious choice of artists (poems of D. Krusovszky, M. Varga and I. Nagypál).
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The academic debate on “LGBT Christians” focuses on the issue of conflict between religion and homosexuality and on the ways of solving it. The source of this conflict is usually located within religious traditions which have created and maintained the negative image of homosexuality. In this context, particular believers are presented as individualized actors who activate a huge agency, while harmonizing their religiosity with sexuality. However, the author’s research conducted in Poland, especially among members of Faith and Rainbow, which is a group of “LGBT Christians”, calls for shifting the focus of the analysis from the individual agency into the social structure and locating experiences of the members of this community within various discursive and social interdependencies. The proposed interpretation takes into account the individuals’ entanglement in religious, medical and emancipatory discourses, as well as in the interplay between them. It also highlights the differences in the ways of integrating religion with sexual non-normativity at the personal level, which are conditioned by the individuals’ age and gender, as well as their social and denominational background.
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AThe article is based on the first sociological study of the attitudes and preferences of Czech men who identify themselves as gay towards (gay) fatherhood, family, and parenthood. The main arguments of the study evolve around the themes of the (overwhelmingly positive) parental desires of the gay men participating in the study; their internalised moral dilemmas connected to gay fatherhood; the reproductive choices and limits that structure the attitudes of gay men towards parenthood and family; and gender stereotypes about family/parenting models and the roles these men occupy. The article is divided into two main parts. The fi rst part introduces the context and current state of sociological scholarship and research on gay fatherhood and homoparentality. The second part of the article discusses results, an interpretation, and an analysis of the empirical findings of the study.
Studia theologica
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2012
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vol. 14
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issue 3
112–127
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The paper describes positives and negatives requests for candidates of the holy orders given by the actual norms of the Catholic Church. First it clarifies the reasons for such requests and their foundation in the Code of canon Law from 1983 and in extra- codified norms and basic requests for the validity and lawfulness of orders as well. Subsequently, the author deals with concrete requests and their verification in the three stages of the formation for priesthood: the initial one connected with acceptance to the major seminary, further during the formation in seminary and finally immediately before ordination.
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The first part of the article describes the events in 2004 connected with the organization of the festival 'Culture for Tolerance' and negative reaction of many people towards it. The material used consisted of and interviews with organizers, participant observation, video recording press relations. The second part describes positions of experiences of the main actors of events: Campaign Against Homophobia; Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University; Piotr Skarga Association of Christian Culture; All-Poland Youth; football fans of two Cracovian clubs; Roman-Catholic Church; the state; mass media. The final part contains in the analysis of the events within several different theoretical contexts: the concepts of homosexuality, gender, nationalism and globalization. Concluding remarks elaborate on the character of Polish civil society which is still a holistic ethical monolith rather than a liberal arena for discussion. The gay and lesbian movement is the most spectacular force that tries to change the situation.
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