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Inside The Body Politic: Examining the Birth of Gay Liberation

2011· dissertation· en· W567688675 on OpenAlex
Justin Hanson

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University) · 2011
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical Gender and Feminism Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBody politicGender studiesLiberationSociologyCriminologyPsychoanalysisPsychologyPolitical sciencePoliticsLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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In this project, I examine a 1970s-1980s era Gay Liberation periodical which developed simultaneously with the Gay Liberation movement. The periodical, The Body Politic, was based in Toronto, Canada and enjoyed a worldwide following and fifteen year lifespan. I analyze the magazine’s content, relevant historical events and legal cases, and collected several oral histories of the founding members, contributors, and staff. I assert that the majority of The Body Politic’s articles can be classified as two forms of rhetoric: gay inclusive and straight exclusive. Using both forms of rhetoric and utilizing social and political dissent, the underlying goal of such rhetoric was the creation of a separatist gay culture: ulterior, distinct, and in opposition with the heterosexual or “dominant culture.” In this fashion, members of the Gay Liberation movement employed dissent to strengthen the solidarity of the gay community and to define the nascent gay culture under a banner of gay nationalism. Using acerbic critique and incendiary discourse, several authors of The Body Politic contributed to a hostile scenario to rally the unity of the gay culture. Fueled by such bellicose rhetoric and radical counterculture intellectualism, the early Gay Liberation movement took an aggressive, confrontational approach to political activism and Civil Disobedience which has affected the divisive nature of North American sexual politics to this day. Examining The Body Politic as a microcosm of the early Gay Liberation movement, I attempt to chart the origins of a specific communal gay identity that oftentimes placed itself at odds with the heterosexual community. Through this study, I attempt to illuminate some of the basis for the tenuous relationship between North American sexual cultures.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.681
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it