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Gay Shame is a movement from within the queer communities described as a radical alternative to gay mainstreaming and directly posits an alternative view of gay pride events and activities which have become increasingly commercialized with corporate sponsors and "safer" agendas to avoid offending supporters and sponsors.〔(Gay Shame ). David M. Halperin (editor)〕〔(Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History ) by Heather Love〕 The Gay Shame movement has grown to embrace radical expression, counter-cultural ideologies and avant-garde arts and artists. ==Background and history== Gay Shame was created as a protest of (and named in opposition to) the overcommercialization of the gay pride events. Members attack "queer assimilation" in what they perceive as oppressive societal structures. As such, its members disagree with the legalization of same-sex marriage, stating that: Gay Shame began in 1998 as an annual event in Brooklyn, New York. Held for a number of years at DUMBA, an artists' run collective center, bands such as Three Dollar Bill and Kiki and Herb and speakers such as Eileen Myles, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Penny Arcade appeared at the first event, and the evening was documented by Scott Berry and released as the film ''Gay Shame 98''. ''Swallow Your Pride'' was a zine published by the people involved in planning Gay Shame in New York. Three issues were released. The movement later spread to San Francisco, Toronto, and Sweden. ''LAGAI - Queer Insurrection'' (formerly ''Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention'')〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lagai.org/about_lagai.htm )〕 put such a protest in context. They wrote that the "origins of the LGBTQ movement are revolutionary () Now, some of the same people who participated in those fabulous outpourings of anti-establishment rage tripped over each other on the way to City Hall to have their love blessed by Gavin Newsom, successor to Dan White and Dianne Feinstein, darling of the developers, persecutor of the homeless, and cause of Gay Shame getting beaten and busted by the cops on more than one occasion."〔(Marriage Is Still the Opiate of the Queers )〕 In 2002, AlterNet published a piece by queer activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca who lived in San Francisco about Gay Shame. What he wrote expressed many of the ideas of Gay Shame: In 2009, according to an article on IndyBay, SF Gay Shame had a protest outside San Francisco's LGBT Center.〔(Gay Shame Protest: "De-Center The Center" )〕 A press release they put out about the event they wrote: That same year there was an event of London's chapter of Gay Shame, which they had a so-called "indoor playground of interactive art and alternative ideas...(was in a ) club () shares a similar non-commercial, anti-consumerist angle...(there were ) thirty-five sideshows, 100 performance artists and 3,000 revellers."〔(Gay Shame 2009 Gay Shame serves up a 'festival of femininity' at the Brixton Academy )〕 A book titled ''Gay Shame'' was reviewed on Lambda Literary in 2010. The reviewers noted that the book looks at the origins of Gay Shame, the question of gay pride and challenges readers to "question and explore the possibility that the modern LGBT rights movement's push for acceptance, assimilation, and—they would argue—pride, results in a loss of something importantly queer as it attempts to eradicate shame...() exploring the ways in which pride and shame connected with race, gender and sexuality."〔(‘Gay Shame’ edited by David M. Halperin & Valerie Traub )〕 In 2011, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore was interviewed by an online publication called We Who Feel Differently. Carlos Motta, the interviewer asked about how to open up spaces, and in an response, Mattilda described her work with Gay Shame: Gay Shame was also mentioned on Mission Local,〔(TAKE FIVE: Gay Shame )〕 the Bay Area Reporter,〔(Bucking the mainstream nothing new for Gay Shame )〕 writer Toshio Meronek on the Huffington Post,〔(The Year Queers Fought the De-Politicization of Pride )〕 a radical magazine titled ''Slingshot'',〔(Gay Shame - A Radical Alternative )〕 SF Weekly,〔(Gay Shame in San Francisco -- Mary Wants You! )〕 Sarah Jaffe on Alternet,〔(Gay Shame: A Challenge to Gay Pride )〕 in a 7-page article in the Quarterly Journal of Speech〔(Gay Pride and Its Queer Discontents: ACT UP and the Political Deployment of Affect )〕 and many others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gay Shame」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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