This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Google Scholar Articles by Bryant, K. Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

In Defense of Gay Children? `Progay' Homophobia and the Production of Homonormativity

State University of New York at New Paltz, USA, bryantk{at}newpaltz.edu

This article analyzes putatively homophobic rhetoric and practices and their antihomophobic responses to understand how homophobia and antihomophobia may work together to produce `homonormative' gay subjects. It does so by investigating current debates over the pathologization of homosexuality and gender nonconformity, specifically examining charges that the psychiatric diagnosis Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood (GIDC) is homophobic. The author argues that emerging forms of homophobia, or `progay homophobias', are key to our understandings of anti-queer sentiments in an era of increased tolerance for homosexuality.

Key Words: gender identity disorder • homosexuality • psychiatry • transgender • transsexuality

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?