http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/gay PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/40200 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/40200 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/13205 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/13205 <p>Barnes writes about the increase in films dealing with homosexuality.&nbsp; <u>Philadelphia</u> is an example of the upsurge in major gay and lesbian characters in film; meanwhile mainstream culture experiences a new acceptance of homosexuality as well as a sharp backlash against it.&nbsp; By L. Pardue<br /> </p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/10421 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/10421 <p>The Kids of Christopher Street<br />By STEVEN KURUTZ</p><p>...</p><p>The pier itself has been transformed in recent years, and the changes have heightened tensions between residents and the pier kids. Once a crumbling and desolate area that gay men and teenagers claimed for themselves and fashioned into a sort of West Side Casbah, the pier has become a buzzing, crowded part of Hudson River Park.<br /><br /></p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1114 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1114 <p>In this compilation of essays edited by Jones, the central theme is about how the internet is a virtual culture of its own and how that culture can be described in sociological terms.&nbsp; Of particular interest to me for fan related discourse is Watson's study of the Phish.net fan community, which describes an online fan base of 50K+ members and their interactions.&nbsp; Shaw discusses gender and sexual orientation and internet communities in his essay &quot;Gay Men and Computer Communication: A Discourse of Sex and Identity in Cyberspace&quot;, which although does not related to women's speech, does deal with issues of communication and constructed identity.&nbsp; Later in the volume, Dietrich takes on gender and internet journals in their construction of a body politic.&nbsp; Finally, Zickmund addresses the problem of internet hate speech or&nbsp;&quot;cyberhate&quot; and how &quot;the other&quot; is defined online.</p><p>While I am not dealing with the subject of &quot;cyberrape&quot; as we read about LambdaMOO in the class assignment, if anyone is interested, Richard MacKinnon has a chapter in this volume titled &quot;Punishing the Persona: Correctional Strategies for the Virtual Offender&quot; which further discusses the rape and subsequent punishment of online offenders at LambdaMOO and elsewhere.</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1159 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1159 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1092 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1092 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1093 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1093 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1096 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1096 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1095 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1095 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1091 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1091 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1089 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1089 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/vcat/1088 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/vcat/1088