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Pravkar izšel roman
Jeanette Winterson "Pomaranče
niso
edini sad", pred tiskom Lillian Faderman "Več kot
ljubezen moških: Romantično prijateljstvo in ljubezen med ženskami
od renesanse do sodobnosti".
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Bibliografija
literature in
gradiva z lezbično in gejevsko tematiko, ki se v slovenskem jeziku
zbira od začetka 20. stoletja. Seznam materiala je v delu in stalnem
dograjevanju.
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LESBO 9/10
Id. 2000: NAZAJ V KLOZET
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Vrni v seznam vsebine LESBO 9/10
SUMMARY
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Lesbo is a Slovenian political, social and cultural non-profit
making quarterly. Its founder and publisher is the lesbian group
ŠKUC-LL. The editress-in-chief is Nataša Velikonja, the design
editress is Barbara Predan.
The 9th-10th issue of Lesbo magazine is titled “2000: Back
to the Closet”, which is meant as a serious joke to turn the attention
to the more hidden, less known, quickly forgotten traditions of
gay and lesbian histories and cultures, whose only reason for
being left aside lies in their more complex or soft-core ways
of gay or lesbian identifications. In the editorial, Nataša Velikonja
writes about the conflict processes in the western lesbian feminist
theories, which are known as “sex wars”; their output was also
the new visibility of interconnections between sexualities, genders,
race, class or age status etc. The main utopia in lesbian/gay
politics lies within idealisation of the concept of identity,
which was one of the strongest organising principles of understanding
sexuality in the 20th Century. This central topic is continued
by a part of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay “The Epistemology of
the Closet” and Pierre Lou˙s's poems “Les Chansons de Bilitis”.
Lesbo starts with politics: in the section under the title “Llobby”,
Nataša Koražija, in her article “Soft Social Facts”, analyses
Slovene public opinion research, which is carried out annually
by the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana. Throughout
the nineties, the public opinion poll revealed 40-60 percent of
anti-gay sentiment, the number which is slightly on the decrease.
On the other hand, Sara Lubej in her ironically coloured pamphlet
“Blue Money” gives a sharp view on a Slovene brave new world,
this no-troubled mixture of officially related picture of a modern,
pro-European, pro-western little happy and clean state and society,
and of its other darker and veiled side, state's strategies toward
criminalisation, poverty, chauvinism, xenophobia, police harassment
and hate speech toward junkies, homosexuals, asylum seekers, subcultures
etc. The main political theme of Llobby section is an overview
of legal and social status of homosexuality in Eastern Europe.
Tatjana Greif describes the situation in different countries and
concludes that the trends present in East European countries in
transition and their attitudes towards conceiving equality for
gays and lesbians are aimed at improving their legal situation,
although they are also all subjected to a very strong tendency
towards returning to the traditional values (in public opinion,
church media, educational system etc.) present in the society,
which can represent a certain danger to the socialisation of homosexuality.
Foreign policy's part of “Llobby” section offers a brief comment,
entitled “The compassionate conservativism” — written by Nataša
Sukič — about the shifts toward right-wing or even fundamentalist
policy in the USA government, after the election of the new American
president George W. Bush, and its effect on the status of gays
and lesbians.
This issue brings a new section, “The School”. The school and
educational systems are seen as the fields of social life, which
are extremely important for the public attitude toward homosexuality.
The processes of education in Slovene school and university system
is detailed discussed in Andrej Zornik's feuilleton, “Homosexuality
and the School”, a research which covers treatment of homosexuality
in Slovene primary and secondary schools. Next issues will bring
further discussions about the gays and lesbians in the schools
etc. Suzana Tratnik's essay “Why did Sappfo throw herself from
the Cliffs” discusses the phenomenon of highly marginalised position
of lesbian topics in the academic framework. Despite organised
lesbian movement and extremely intense contemporary international
research in the field, the institutional scientific discourse
in Slovenia does not include the issue of homosexuality in the
university curriculum, but instead it is rather left to the individual
professors to decide whether of not to include it. As the author
argues, there is still a problem of epistemological legitimisation
of lesbian and gay topics. In an article “Identity and Naming”,
Jelka Zorn offers a concept of “handicap” as an epistemological
necessity when thinking about any identity — gay and lesbian too.
This article can be also seen as the highly recommendable description
of one possible analytical tool, which can be used at the more
and more frequent and really happy moments when meeting the whole,
balanced (or deduced) and know-how personal or social arrangements.
The next part “Culture”, is composed of three articles and some
previews commenting on several aspects of cultural life concerning
lesbian and gay topics. Under the title “Zami Girls”, Varja Velikonja
describes the impact of QueerCore movement as a subversive cultural
platform; within this movement, Adele Bertei, a musician and ex-member
of the New York women punk band The Bloods, is presented. Nikolai
Jeffs reviews last year's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. In his
article, “Commercialisation and the loss of identity” Brane Mozetič
defines the culture as an element, which frames and forms an identity.
He states that in the atmosphere, when the GLBT community is aiming
toward articulation of its several needs and demands (the improvement
of the legal system, the accommodation to the market society,
clubbing etc.), the culture as such remains at the lowest levels
of importance. We have our tribe, Mozetič concludes, but what
we do not have, is developed culture and civilisation.
The last section, entitled “Pornovision”, introduces an elaborate
article of Nataša Sukič, “Sexualisation of the media”, which deals
with the body-art and performance in the Slovene art scene. She
gives a brief chronological overview of the development of the
artistic forms which focus on a body as a centre of its expression,
starting from the early eighties and the multimedia group Borghesia,
through the rise of several festivals dealing with the topic (The
Magnus Festival, The Beauty of Extreme, The City of Women, Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival, Kapelica gallery etc.).
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Vrni v seznam vsebine LESBO
9/10
Uvodnik | LLOBBY
- notranji | Tema tromesečja
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LLOBBY - zunanji | ŠOLA
| KULTURA |KLOZET
| LITERATURA | RUBRIKA
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PORNOVIZIJA | SUMMARY
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