Richard Albright Ammon

Life and Death in a Global Gay World True Stories and in-person Interviews from a Hundred Countries (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gay and lesbian citizens tread every continent, infuse every culture and appear in all societies on the planet. They are no longer isolated as a fringe demographic footnote unique to large cities. The 'gay nineties' changed the world's awareness of homosexuality through insistent activism, playful celebrations and unfortunately through HIV. Political and civil recognition of gay couples since the turn of the millennium extends wider and deeper than a mere shrug or silly characterization or an angry pointed finger. The 90's and beyond have been a difficult period of reckoning as well as a victorious one for our worldwide minority.

The victories and the defeats have not been equal among nations. In countries such as South Africa, New Zealand, Greenland, Holland, Germany, Scandinavia, and fitfully the USA, gay culture and gay love have been recognized and validated by federal or state laws and celebrated with colorful festivals and solemn ceremonies. In other repressed countries such as Iran, Egypt, Arabia and most of Africa the wrong sexual orientation can lead to one's imprisonment or demise.

Between these two polarities is the rest of the world. There is a wide range of countries, vast and populous, small and isolated, in which homosexuality is viewed as enigma (Mongolia), a quirk of nature that merits indifference (Thailand), denial (Peru), ambivalence (Uruguay and Morocco), cautious hope (China) or cautious restraint (Sri Lanka) or as a safe but delicate stage for daring gender-bending (Philippines).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard Albright Ammon
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005099886
• Artikelnr.: 72736062

Autorenporträt

Richard Albright Ammon, PhD is a retired psychologist, turned world traveler and researcher into LGBT life around the planet. Since 1990, he has created and managed the website GlobalGayz.com presenting accounts of his and his husband Michael's travels, based on interviews with lesbian and gay men they've met, many of them activists working for social change. GlobalGayz has amassed a wealth of information about what it's like to be gay in more than 100 countries. Each story includes a 'News & Reports' archive with hundreds of related articles. Richard and Michael, together 32 years, live in Southern California.