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ToolsHakim, Jamie, Young, Ingrid and Cummings, James (2022) Sex in the time of coronavirus: Queer men negotiating biosexual citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Continuum, 36 (2). pp. 289-301. ISSN 1030-4312
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Abstract
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, representations of irresponsible gay men partying with little regard for viral transmission have circulated across social media; a construction of gay men that has a history that long precedes the coronavirus conjuncture. In this article, we draw on in-depth qualitative interviews with 43 queer men in London and Edinburgh, to investigate experiences of sexual and intimate practices during COVID-19 and use the concept of ‘biosexual citizenship’ (2018) to analyse the ethical frameworks these men used to navigate them. We argue that rather than being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ biosexual citizens, queer men have developed an array of ethically reflexive strategies in order to negotiate the difficult terrain they have had to face when trying to pursue their cultures of sex and intimacy during the pandemic. In so doing, they appear to enact biosexual citizenship through diverse sexual practices that both inevitably include and challenge both hegemonic imperatives of responsibility and well-being, as well as well-worn media representations of reckless, hedonistic gay men.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | covid-19,gay and bisexual men,united kingdom,biosexual citizenship,intimacy,responsibility,cultural studies,visual arts and performing arts ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3316 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2021 00:47 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2022 03:13 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81928 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10304312.2021.1992350 |
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