Sex in the Time of Coronavirus: Queer Men Negotiating Biosexual Citizenship During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sex in the Time of Coronavirus: Queer Men Negotiating Biosexual Citizenship During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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DOI：
10.1080/10304312.2021.1992350
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发表时间：
2021-10-21
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0.8
通讯作者：
Cummings, James
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作者：
Hakim, Jamie;Young, Ingrid;Cummings, James
在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，社交媒体上流传着不负责任的男同性恋者开派对、不顾病毒传播的画面；这是一座历史悠久的男同性恋建筑，早在冠状病毒爆发之前就有了。在本文中，我们对伦敦和爱丁堡的43名酷儿男性进行了深入的定性访谈，以调查2019冠状病毒病期间的性行为和亲密行为经历，并使用“生物性公民”（2018年）的概念来分析这些男性用于应对这些行为的道德框架。我们认为，酷儿男性并没有成为“好”或“坏”的生物性公民，而是发展了一系列道德反思策略，以便在疫情期间努力追求自己的性和亲密文化时，应对他们不得不面对的困难局面。在这样做的过程中，他们似乎通过各种各样的性行为制定了生物性公民身份，这些性行为不可避免地包括并挑战了责任和幸福的霸权要求，以及媒体对鲁莽、享乐的同性恋者的老生常谈的描述。
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, representations of irresponsible gay men partying with little regard for viral transmission have circulated across social media; a construction of gay men that has a history that long precedes the coronavirus conjuncture. In this article, we draw on in-depth qualitative interviews with 43 queer men in London and Edinburgh, to investigate experiences of sexual and intimate practices during COVID-19 and use the concept of 'biosexual citizenship' (2018) to analyse the ethical frameworks these men used to navigate them. We argue that rather than being 'good' or 'bad' biosexual citizens, queer men have developed an array of ethically reflexive strategies in order to negotiate the difficult terrain they have had to face when trying to pursue their cultures of sex and intimacy during the pandemic. In so doing, they appear to enact biosexual citizenship through diverse sexual practices that both inevitably include and challenge both hegemonic imperatives of responsibility and well-being, as well as well-worn media representations of reckless, hedonistic gay men.