I have recently been involved in a new edited collection of personal stories by gay men. The Everyday Lives of Gay Men draws on the expertise of 12 contributors from different countries and fields, writing from an auto-ethnographic first-person approach. Putting the power of personal stories at the centre of the construction of sophisticated narratives of gay…
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Congratulations SEXUALITIES: Twenty Years Old!
CONGRATULATIONS SEXUALITIES! Now Twenty Years Old, the 20th Anniversary Edition depicts the enormous range and success of a growing field of research, activism and policy. Its is marvellous issue, bursting with state of the art essays from many on its editorial board. It is a must read for sexualities scholars. In a very dark world right…
World AIDS Day 2017 : Everybody Counts
World AIDS Day 2017 : Everybody Counts Once again it is World AIDS Day. HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 35 million lives so far. In 2016, 1.0 million people died from HIV-related causes globally. There were approximately 36.7 million people living with HIV at the…
50 Years of Decriminalization? Still Queer After All These Years
To mark the 50th Anniversary Changes in the law…… a recent little piece written for the British Sociological Association Web site at: British Sociological Association: News: July 27th 50 Years of Decriminalization? Still Queer After All These Years On 27th July 1967, the Sexual Offences Act, ‘an act to amend the law of England…
New Article: On the Infinitude of Life Stories – Still Puzzling Queer Tales After All These Years
I have just published a new short article. This is an extract of an article published in QED: A Journal in GLBTQWorldmaking 4.1 (2017) p189-197. FROM: Tony Adams and Derek Bolen eds ‘Queer Auto/ethnographies” Forum for QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. A Story of My Stories Over the years I have told many sexual stories.…
Art and Photos, Imagining Better Worlds, Insipirations, Intimate citizenship, Living Humanity, Poems and Poetics, Politics and change, Sociological Imaginations
Remembering John Gagnon
On Thursday February 11 2016, my dear friend, mentor and guru John Gagnon died at the age of 84. He had experienced problems with his leg and his eye, but the final period starting in October brought a terminal pancreatic cancer. He has been an inspiration and will be loved and missed by many.…
Imagining Better Worlds, Intimate citizenship, Living Humanity, Politics and change, Sociological Imaginations
Liberating Generations: a new paper in a new book
A new book has been launched this week. The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the twenty-two specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate in…
Two New British Musicals: Union, Southwark and Mercury, Colchester.
And now: for my 160th blog, something completely different……. The White Feather and The Smallest Show on Earth Last week I had the joy of seeing not one but two brand new British musicals. One was at the tiny Union Theatre in Southwark – a dramatic tale of the First World…
Telling Sexual Stories Twenty Years On
Last week I attended an exciting Summer School at Durham University for the Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities Centre. Here is the abstract of the lecture I gave. More details can be found at Telling Sexual Stories Twenty Years On: Narrative Power and Narrative In this lecture I will briefly revisit my study Telling…
Imagining Better Worlds, Intimate citizenship, Living Humanity, Politics and change, Sociological Imaginations
Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination
Cosmopolitan Sexualities is now published My latest book was published in May 2015 by Polity Press. You can find details and a study guide for it by clicking here or the tab at the top: Cosmosexualities It is reviewed in the Times Higher Education here, along with my ‘full profile, at: Review’ From the cover:…