What is the investment for gay men in hegemonic masculine subject positions within gay culture? Origins and Hegemonic Masculinity

 Victorian Era & The Rise of Industrial Capitalism  Incitement to Confess  The Discursive Birth of the Homosexual  Categorization and Social Relegation

 The Summer of ’69  Post-Stonewall & Commodification of Gay Culture  Homonegativism and Quality of Life

“Nothing has any meaning outside of discourse” (Michel Foucault, 1972)

Critical Discourse Analysis DNA Magazine 10 articles and 2 advertisements

 Lack of Variation – Identities and Masculinities  Centralized Positioning of the Proper Gay Subject  Hegemonic Masculinity – Attitude and Body

 Foucauldian Governmentality  Illusions of Escape from Otherness  Indignities and Access  The Gay Self and Consumptive Materialism  Western Heteropatriarchal Society’s Whipping Boy

 Keep a PRP JOURNAL to record thoughts, ideas, and feelings throughout the day  Use INDEX CARDS to arrange copious bits of information re: Literature Review  DO NOT PANIC if the words do not come readily – frustration is part of the process  Be FEARLESS and PASSIONATE  The PRP is a SOCIAL JUSTICE PROJECT