Lan Dong explores in her paper, "Tracing Chinese Gay Cinema 1993-2002" the recent landscape of Chinese gay cinema through discussing the following three feature films: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine (1993), Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace (1996), and Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu (2001). The grouping derives from the concern that they all set their stories in Beijing. Using the capital city a...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate an intervention designed to curtail an outbreak of hepatitis A among gay men, especially the young and sexually active, by promoting their free vaccination. DESIGN The study analysed routine passive surveillance data, carried out questionnaire and serological surveys of vaccinees, and surveys among the target population in non-clinical venues. SETTING AND INTERVE...

BACKGROUND Socially excluded populations have poorer access to care; however, little attention has been paid to lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or trans* people. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or trans* people are at increased risk of certain life-limiting illnesses and may not receive the care and support they need at the end of life and into bereavement. AIM To identify and appraise the evidence of ...

Although gay men in Sydney are generally well-informed about HIV and their own serostatus, their knowledge of other sexually transmissible infections (STIs)—including their own infection and vaccination history— appears to be much lower, according to an ongoing study of HIV-negative gay men. These findings suggest a need for more education around STIs to complement recently-introduced guideline...

Study objective—To evaluate an intervention designed to curtail an outbreak of hepatitis A among gay men, especially the young and sexually active, by promoting their free vaccination. Design—The study analysed routine passive surveillance data, carried out questionnaire and serological surveys of vaccinees, and surveys among the target population in non-clinical venues. Setting and interventio...

This work examines the structure of discourses on homosexuality, taking the nature-versus-nurture question as a case study, in order to display the incoherency that results from taking such questions for granted. This paper critically explores the alleged neutrality and objectivity of discourses on sexuality, and within this exploration, a breakdown of the categories of sexuality, sex, gender, ...

Studies have shown /s/ variation to be a powerful social cue, indexing gender, social class, and age (Stuart-Smith 2007), as well as sexual orientation or non-normative masculinity (Pharao et al. 2014; Zimman 2017). Based on speech data from nineteen gay and straight French and German bilingual men this paper explores the social meaning of /s/ variation across three task types: an L2 (English) ...