Making Queer History The Victors Write History - 922 Words

Making Queer history The victors write history. There are many stories that have never been written and the history and legacy of the subaltern communities are usually oppressed and erased. To add to that, we also belong to a culture that heavily depended on oral history. Today we have observed and documented what suits us. Rest of them are discarded or not spoken about. When I came out to my mother, she said that she had friends in college who were involved with people of the same gender. The concept of homosexuality was not new to her. But she struggled to find more resources to understand what her son was going through. I had the same issue. As a young adolescent boy, the only reference I had to gender-non-confirming individuals been of Transwomen. And our media in the 90s were not kind to them. The other news that covered same-sex relationship always portrayed the men involved as perverts. The first time I came across the word homosexual and gay was in a teen magazine that I read then. It was the first article I read about homosexual individuals and trans-persons, which was in a positive note. That day I said to myself â€Å"I am gay† - I was fourteen then. Later, from time to time I read about homosexual men in last pages of Tamil pulp fictions. The reporting would be that of disgust and outrage. But these meager resources - positive and negative - kept me going. I knew I wasn’t alone. Today we have many published novels, poetry and websites that focus on queer lives.Show MoreRelatedA Brief Note On The Country Music Association Awards1868 Words   |  8 Pageslove it, really love it. The lovers of this type of music typically reside on the lower half of the country and tend to have a strong affinity for boots and cowboy hats. Although I didn’t know the specifics of the history of Country music before I began researching, I did know the history of the genre was old and rich. An example of Country Music’s age and wealth can be found in its prevalence in America. We all know a Country song when we hear one, but just like trying to describe the taste of cinnamonRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesand Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., History and September 11th John McMillian and Paul Buhle, eds., The New Left Revisited David M. Scobey, Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York