Gay Men's Friendships : Invincible Communities
Gay Men's Friendships : Invincible Communities
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男同性恋者的友谊：无敌的社区
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1999
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P. Nardi
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P. Nardi
基于对200名男同性恋者的调查和访谈，本研究对当代城市男同性恋者的友谊进行了考察。通过对友谊的历史和社会学研究，纳迪认为，友谊是男同性恋生活的核心组织元素。通过友谊，同性恋身份和社区被创造、转化、维持和复制。Nardi探讨了朋友对一些男同性恋者的意义，朋友如何经常成为代理家庭，性行为和吸引力如何影响这些友谊，以及对许多人来说，朋友比浪漫关系更重要，持续时间更长。在审视友谊的心理悲欢的同时，他还考虑了当代美国城市中限制男同性恋的文化约束--尤其是那些处理男性气质和异性恋的主导形象的文化约束--以及他们如何与友谊联系在一起。通过倾听男同性恋者谈论他们的互动，Nardi提供了一个同性恋生活机制的一瞥。我们了解男同性恋者如何与朋友见面，他们通常做什么和谈论什么，以及这些牢固的关系如何包含更大的文化力量的根源，如社会运动和同性恋身份和社区。纳迪还指出，当友谊不能为反对压迫提供支持时，会产生政治和社会后果。
Based on surveys and interviews of two hundred gay men, this study presents an examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships. Weaving historical and sociological research on friendship with firsthand information, Nardi argues that friendship is the central organizing element of gay men's lives. Through friendship, gay identities and communities are created, transformed, maintained and reproduced. Nardi explores the meaning of friends to some gay men, how friends often become a surrogate family, how sexual behaviour and attraction affects these friendships, and how, for many, friends mean more and last longer than romantic relationships. While looking at the psychological joys and sorrows of friendship, he also considers the cultural constraints limiting gay men in contemporary urban America - especially those that deal with dominant images of masculinity and heterosexuality - and how they relate to friendship. By listening to gay men talk about their interactions, Nardi offers a glimpse into the mechanisms of gay life. We learn how gay men meet their friends, what they typically do and talk about, and how these strong relationships contain the roots of larger cultural forces such as social movements and gay identities and neighbourhoods. Nardi also points out the political and social consequences when friendships fail to provide support against oppression.