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Gay and Lesbian

Issues and

Psychology

Review

Editors

Damien W. Riggs &

Vicki Crowley

The Australian

Psychological

Society Ltd.

ISSN 1833-4512

Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review

Editor

Damien W. Riggs, The University of Adelaide

Editorial Board

Graeme Kane, Eastern Drug and Alcohol Service

Jim Malcom, The University of Western Sydney

Liz Short, Victoria University

Jane Edwards, Spencer Gulf Rural Health School

Warrick Arblaster, Mental Health Policy Unit, ACT

Murray Drummond, The University of South Australia

Gordon A. Walker, Monash University

Robert Morris, Private practice

Brett Toelle, The University of Sydney

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Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review

Volume 3

Number 3

Contents

Editorial: Queer cultural producers

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Damien W. Riggs and Vicki Crowley

Articles

Creative queer Singapore: The illiberal pragmatics of cultural production

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Audrey Yue

ÒGay marriageÓ, lesbian wedding

161

Barbara Baird

Recognition factors

171

Rosslyn Prosser

The hegemonic aesthetic

175

Shaun M. Filiault & Murray J.N. Drummond

Psychology, liberalism, and activism: Challenging discourses of Òequality withÓ in

185

the same-sex marriage debate

Damien W. Riggs

Commentary

Comment on Duffy (2007)

195

Sophie Pointer

Book Reviews

Challenging lesbian norms: Intersex, transgender, intersectional and queer perspectives

196

Sue Kentlyn

Calls for Papers

GLIP Review: Mental health and LGBT people

Health Sociology Review: Community, family, citizenship and the health of LGBTIQ people

Gay & Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2007

EDITORIAL: QUEER CULTURAL PRODUCERS

DAMIEN W. RIGGS & VICKI CROWLEY

This issue of the Review takes as its

starting place a forum that was convened

as part of the 2006 Adelaide Feast

Festival, a yearly cultural programme

featuring local and international LGBTIQ

events. The forum marked a second

collaboration between the Cultures of the

Body Research Group from the University

of South Australia and was convened by

the outgoing Feast director Fanny

Jacobson. It provided an important venue

for LGBTIQ issues from within both the

academy and community to come together

in one place. Speakers presented

theoretical analyses, shared personal

narratives, screened performance pieces,

read poetry and presented artworks for

display. What came out of the event was a

sense that theory, art and activism are

often intimately interwoven in the lives of

LGBTIQ people, and that paying attention

to just one aspect could result in a failure

to understand the breadth and diversity

that exists within LGBTIQ communities.

communities as well as the broader

Australian and international community.

Covering issues from Òsame-sex marriageÓ

to representations of gay men in comics,

from creative industries and queer cultures

in Singapore to narratives of lesbian

embodiment, the authors contribute to an

understanding of the complex ways in

which cultural production takes place, and

the multiple ways in which cultures

themselves can be read.

In the first paper Audrey Yue, the keynote

speaker at the forum, examines how the

development of creative industries within

Singapore represents an Òilliberal

pragmaticsÓ, whereby queer people are

included in some respects and excluded in

others. Questioning the hegemony of the

Òpost-StonewallÓ logic of queer liberation,

Yue asserts the specificities of queer

cultural production in Singapore, and its

role in the queering of Singapore itself.

Barbara Baird takes up the issue of post-

Stonewall politics in her insightful paper on

Ògay marriageÓ. Baird places this term

under question in order to examine how

calls for Òsame-sex marriage rightsÓ may be

understood as an aspect of the

normalisation of queer rights that have

persisted in varying forms in the Western

world since Stonewall. Baird challenges us

to consider how the ÒsexÓ in Òsame-sexÓ

disappears when marriage becomes all

about the Òrespectable same-sex coupleÓ.

BairdÓs paper is a salient reminder of the

complexities of debates over queer rights

and their location within broader political

and personal economies whereby the Òpink

dollarÓ plays a significant role in the

production of particular (dominant) queer

cultures.

The forum took as its starting place the

notion of Òqueer cultural producersÓ, and

the presenters examined, in varying ways,

the ways in which queer cultures are

produced, how queer cultures destabilise

or challenge mainstream cultures, and

importantly, how queer cultures destabilise

themselves Î how the diversity within

LGBTIQ communities presents a radical

challenge to notions of coalitionism.

Nonetheless, the overall message from the

forum was that links and supportive

frameworks can be developed through a

shared commitment to examining and

challenging cultural production, in its

normative and queer forms.

The papers presented in this issue of the

Review demonstrate the breadth of the

forum and its attention to cultural

production across a range of spaces, both

public and intimate. All of the authors call

into question the ways in which cultural

norms function to produce particular

bodies, and importantly the authors turn

this

In her ficto-critical work, Ros Prosser

provides a narrative of lesbian bodies that

threads together the memories of bodies

past with the experiences of bodies

present. Prosser questions what it means

to be a lesbian, and moreover a lesbian

inhabiting a particular space and time

critical

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wherein certain bodies claim space over

others, both within lesbian communities

and with-out. Prosser speaks of lesbian

cultural production, of resistance, of

conformity, and most frequently of

uncertainty. ProsserÓs work reminds us

that the Òlesbian archiveÓ is far more

complex than it may often seem.

on issues of cultural production within

lesbian communities.

Together these papers are a reminder of

the exciting and stimulating environment

that can result from collaborations

between arts and cultural festivals and the

academy. Fanny JacobsonÓs commitment

to challenging norms within queer

communities and to foregrounding the

frisson of ideas, intellectual and other

creative production often put aspects of

Feast at odds with those who sought a

more Òacceptable faceÓ for LGBTIQ

communities. The 2006 collaboration is

testament to a diverse range of cultural

productions and continues to place Fanny

at the forefront of innovation and as such

in a unique position within LGBTIQ cultural

spaces across Australia and abroad.

Importantly it points academia towards

community collaborations in which the

boundaries of thinking can explore and

express its leading creative edge.

Shaun Filiault and Murray Drummond

usefully extend previous work on the

concept of hegemonic masculinity to

examine its constitutive parts, and in

particular they highlight the importance of

examining the aspects of aesthetic that

shape gay menÓs experiences of

embodiment. By focusing on two markedly

different forms of gay male embodiment,

they emphasise how hegemonies shift and

are reworked across gay and straight

cultures.

Returning to the issue of same-sex

marriage, Damien Riggs explores how the

discipline of psychology engages with

activism in regards to queer rights, and

how this results in the cultural production

of particular forms of rights deemed

intelligible within a liberal framework.

Riggs asks us to consider alternate ways

of conceptualising the role of the state,

and the implications of particular forms of

sanction for a broad range of queer

people. Rather than seeking Òequality withÓ

the heterosexual majority, Riggs suggests

that queer communities may instead

question how sanction is accorded and at

whose expense this comes.

These papers as a whole highlight the

richness of queer cultural production both

within Australia and internationally, and

signal some of the sites where

reclaimations, revisionings and reifications

take place. ÒQueerÓ cultural production is

never outside of cultural norms by the

very fact of its queerness. What makes a

queer cultural event queer is its

commitment to recognising the norms

through which it is produced, the

privileges it may grant, and the

opportunities for challenging these. Queer

cultural production never is (or should be)

a complete event, with ongoing challenges

to various hegemonies central not only to

the works within this issue, but also to the

broader practices of queer cultural

production across LGBTIQ communities.

Finally, the issue includes one commentary

Î a response to the paper on same-sex

adoption and parenting in the last issue of

the Review Î and a book review, focusing

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