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AbstractBrussels has recently seen the emergence of a Gay Village in an area of the inner city known as the Saint-Jacques district. Based on empirical studies, this article investigates the nature of this new kind of space, increasingly common in Western cities, for homosociability. It also tries to position the phenomenon within a wider geography of homosexual territory on a city-wide scale. The study highlights the contrast between a concentration of visible marks of homosexual presence in the inner city (such as bars and associations), particularly in the Saint-Jacques district, and a wider spatial diffusion of more heterogeneous and less visible types of homosexual territory in urban space.
Keywords: Homosexualité, territoires, village gai, gentrification, Bruxelles, Homosexuality, territory, Gay Village, gentrification, Brussels
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This article aims to document the motives for the use of sexual health services among street-involved youths. Thirty-three street-involved youths (18 to 25 years old) were interviewed in individual interviews. The qualitative analysis shows that street-involved youths use biomedical services in order to preserve their sexual health. However, the private and secondary nature of sexuality, especially in the street context, is a barrier to their use of sexual health services. These findings help to rethink the sexual health services available to street-involved youths.
Keywords: jeunes de la rue, intervention, santé sexuelle, utilisation, recherche qualitative, barrières, facilitateurs, street-involved youths, intervention, sexual health, utilization, qualitative research, barriers, facilitators
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The following article questions the absence of the female hobo in American history. Focusing on narratives produced by self-identified hobos and hobo organizations of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the author contends that the female hobo is located in the deconstruction of discourses of hobo masculinity.
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In this interview, C. Gallant, manager of Good for Her (gfh), a feminist sex shop in Toronto, discusses her experiences facilitating various workshops offered at gfh and addresses the political dimensions of female sexual pleasure, the whore stigma, colonization of the female body, and feminist workshop pedagogy.
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This article argues that in Ananda Devi’s La vie de Joséphin le fou (2003), the protagonist Joséphin assumes the form of a human-eel monster, engaging in acts of vorarephilia or “vore,” to satiate a murderous desire underwater. This analysis conceives Joséphin’s aquatic world as a paradoxically queer, abject, and maternal space in which Joséphin terrorizes two underage children as both their abductor and protector. Devi further reconfigures in her novel the archetype of the protective eel in Mauritian shamanistic practices by depicting Joséphin as a predatorial human-eel figure. Joséphin’s violence against the children as he assumes such a monstrous embodiment serves as a metaphor for child sexual abuse in Mauritius where, at the time of the novel’s publication, an estimated 2,600 children were victims of molestation.
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AbstractWhat's in a Name ?The Social Construction of Riskfor AIDS in the Moral Imaginationof IV Drug Users in HarlemThis essay profiles the life stories of five individuals from Harlem in New York City, an impoverished community with high levels of drug use and HIV seroprevalence. AU are intravenous drug users, and each profile is concerned with documenting the way in which risk for HIV infection is perceived relative to other kinds of dangers, as well as the way it is managed relative to other kinds of needs. The paper explores the significance of thèse correspondences, locales thèse ideas within the larger social fabric of the community, particularly as they relate to poverty, and explores the implications of thèse correspondences for AIDS intervention.