La vie homosexuelle à l’écart de la visibilité urbaine. Ethnographie d’une minorité sexuelle masculine dans la Drôme

Over the past decades, cities have come to be portrayed as « gay paradises », whose tolerance and open-minded urban culture attracted numerous gay people and fostered gay liberation, whereas rural spaces and small towns have commonly been contrasted as gay deserts, as well as conservative areas wher...

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Main Author: Colin Giraud
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: ENS Éditions 2016-04-01
Series:Tracés
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/traces/6424
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spelling doaj-2909dc10cd814402abb2631f9b9bd9da2020-11-24T21:26:27ZfraENS ÉditionsTracés1763-00611963-18122016-04-01307910210.4000/traces.6424La vie homosexuelle à l’écart de la visibilité urbaine. Ethnographie d’une minorité sexuelle masculine dans la DrômeColin GiraudOver the past decades, cities have come to be portrayed as « gay paradises », whose tolerance and open-minded urban culture attracted numerous gay people and fostered gay liberation, whereas rural spaces and small towns have commonly been contrasted as gay deserts, as well as conservative areas where gay lives could not be lived. This article, based on interviews, explores what life gay men live in such places in the South of France. Far from urban tolerance but also from any urban/rural opposition, gay men describe a more complex picture of non-urban life, where tolerance and gay socialization do exist. This paper underlines how gay men who live in these gay deserts, create specific local resources helping them to develop their own gay identities, far away from urban gay models.http://journals.openedition.org/traces/6424gay menworking classminoritiessocializationrural/urban studiesexperience
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La vie homosexuelle à l’écart de la visibilité urbaine. Ethnographie d’une minorité sexuelle masculine dans la Drôme
Tracés
gay men
working class
minorities
socialization
rural/urban studies
experience
author_facet Colin Giraud
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title La vie homosexuelle à l’écart de la visibilité urbaine. Ethnographie d’une minorité sexuelle masculine dans la Drôme
title_short La vie homosexuelle à l’écart de la visibilité urbaine. Ethnographie d’une minorité sexuelle masculine dans la Drôme
title_full La vie homosexuelle à l’écart de la visibilité urbaine. Ethnographie d’une minorité sexuelle masculine dans la Drôme
title_fullStr La vie homosexuelle à l’écart de la visibilité urbaine. Ethnographie d’une minorité sexuelle masculine dans la Drôme
title_full_unstemmed La vie homosexuelle à l’écart de la visibilité urbaine. Ethnographie d’une minorité sexuelle masculine dans la Drôme
title_sort la vie homosexuelle à l’écart de la visibilité urbaine. ethnographie d’une minorité sexuelle masculine dans la drôme
publisher ENS Éditions
series Tracés
issn 1763-0061
1963-1812
publishDate 2016-04-01
description Over the past decades, cities have come to be portrayed as « gay paradises », whose tolerance and open-minded urban culture attracted numerous gay people and fostered gay liberation, whereas rural spaces and small towns have commonly been contrasted as gay deserts, as well as conservative areas where gay lives could not be lived. This article, based on interviews, explores what life gay men live in such places in the South of France. Far from urban tolerance but also from any urban/rural opposition, gay men describe a more complex picture of non-urban life, where tolerance and gay socialization do exist. This paper underlines how gay men who live in these gay deserts, create specific local resources helping them to develop their own gay identities, far away from urban gay models.
topic gay men
working class
minorities
socialization
rural/urban studies
experience
url http://journals.openedition.org/traces/6424
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