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Homosexuality and Remedicalization and BOwers v. Hardwick (Medicalization:…
Homosexuality and Remedicalization and BOwers v. Hardwick
Medicalization: "non medical problems become defined and treated as medical problems" (32)
therapy: psychotherapy (even conversion therapy); the NARTH (34)--"defend conversion therapy with civil rights rhetoric" (34 [i.e. we're helping the distressed gays]
DSM-II; the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, and each revision remedicalizes in a different way. "Personality disorders and other"--it's now OFICIALLY a disorder/mental problem; negative connotations; not "normal", it's doing that Othering work
DSM III: Ego-dystonic homosexuality" and Gender Identity Disorder; makes gender variance/transgender into a disorder (transgender:
"Demedicalization could always be challenged" (39)
HIV/AIDS
"Gay Related Immune DIsorder"; it alienates. Don't get near a gay person, etc; circulates misinformation--that's also dangerous for heterosexual activity
moral/religious inflections with HIV/AIDS
spiritual
medicalization creates judgement values
gay gene and "born this way" debate: 1990s "LeVay" and the brain (37); drawing connections between genetics and twin testing
What if in the future we have gene conversion therapies/questions of genetic interventions: "termination of pregnancies" or "genetic therapies" (37)
liberating in the sense that is debunks the "lifestyle" rhetoric
Hardwick arrested for consensual homosexual sodomy in his own home; Supreme court rules against, upholds sodomy laws as constitutional
"Sodomy laws should not be invalidated on the asserted basis that majority belief that sodomy is immoral is an inadequate rationale to support the laws. "
"a threatened attack on patriarchal power"
"the gay man's rectum is a grave" drawing from Leo Bersani; the "phallic law of masculine heterosexuality" (444)
a "practicing homosexual" and the limits of identity politics--suggests choice, gives agency to enactor
identity seems inherent and makes you who you are; "practicing" connotes job or thing one does
is this liberatory? Gives us wiggle room, unsettles commitment