The Civilized Homosexual: Travel Talk and the Project of Gay Identity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gay tourism has been identified as an area in which new intersections of identity, transnationalism, politics and economics are occurring. By marketing travel/holiday choices based on a sexual identity, we are witnessing in some sense a ‘postmodern’ turn in tourism as it responds to a multiplicity of interests and subject positions. But, at the same time, some argue that as an industry and an event, gay tourism is very similar to its mainstream counterpart as it sustains social, political and economic inequalities with very deep roots in the socio-historical firmament we refer to as colonialism. In this article, I explore the situated production of difference/distance primarily through the comments of a member of the gay tourism industry located in Barbados and the perspectives of some local ‘gay-identified’ Barbadian men in order to highlight how the former's constructions are inflected with modernist hierarchies of race, class, nation, and colony and how the latter's views simultaneously reproduce and transform these hierarchical relations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.043 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".