Who: Imelda May, Hyde Park Brass Park, Jumpin’ Up!, Linley Hamilton Quartet, Randy Ingram Trio, Tom Ollendorf, National Youth Jazz Orchestra and more. Make sure to: Check out the conversation between Ronan Hession and cult US musician and author Willy Vlautin. All styles are catered for from swing, bluegrass and rockabilly to Cajun, folk, blues and beyond. What: Bringing some of the finest acts in Americana and Roots to the Marble City since 1998, the event is back this year with another raft of top-notch artists, performing in a selection of Kilkenny’s most atmospheric venues.
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Who: The Remedy Club, Joana Serrat, The Hanging Stars, His Lordship, Margo Cilker, Ronan Hession and Willy Vlautin, The Delines, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Jesse Dayton, TK & The Holy Know-Nothings, Smithwick’s Music Trail with over 60 free shows, and more. Where: Various venues throughout Kilkenny city Make sure to: Fully savour the fun and frolics. What: Taking place on the banks of the Shannon, Riverfest boasts a brilliant array of events, activities and family friendly fun, all of which is sure to make for a memorable May bank holiday weekend in the Treaty city. Who: Riverfest Village, Fashion Friday, Scavenger Hunt, BBQ On The Boardwalk, Party In The Park and more. Where: Various venues and locations throughout Limerick city Vincent and Freakscene: The Story Of Dinosaur Jr. Make sure to: Check out some of the excellent film screenings, including two must-sees for music fans, The Nowhere Inn – St. What: One of the North’s premier festivals, the always unmissable Cathedral Arts Quarter is back with another superb line-up this year, with a treasure trove of delights covering music, film, comedy, art and literature. gayness is equivalent to femininity.Who: Echo And The Bunnymen, Mogwai, Declan O’Rourke, Bell X1 with Dowry Strings, John Shuttleworth, Kae Tempest, Shaparak Khorsandi, Richard Hawley, Bonnie Greer, John Cooper Clarke, Armando Iannucci and more. Hyper-masculinization manages to dismiss claims of homosexuality, since homosexuality was (and still is) seen in gendered terms, i.e. This ad is taking place in a hyper-masculinized space, the army. What you miss in the analysis of this ad is its spatial context. So it's not at all that homophobia wasn't a cultural fact at the time it certainly was part of the collective cultural consciousness. Scholars have shown how the Boy Scouts of America was created at the turn of the century because of an anxiety over the spread of effeminacy, which was linked to homosexuality. In the 1920s gays were a target of social purity and marital hygiene campaigns. For instance, In the 1930s gays were blamed for the crash of stock market because of their excessive lifestyles and licentious ways. Homosexuality became a medical concern (was a medical construction) in the late 19th century and ever since then homophobia has been in the popular consciousness in various degrees of intensity. I would have to disagree with your dating of the presence of homophobia/homosexuality on the cultural consciousness.
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Accordingly, the ad seems to be a simple illustrated recommendation, complete with a nice heterosexual prize at the end.įrom Vintage Ads. It simply wasn’t on people’s minds as it is today. I think, however, that this was not at all the intention in 1942, where the possibility of men’s sexual attraction to other men wasn’t so prominent of a cultural trope. perspective, where most of us have heard homophobic jokes about not dropping the soap in the shower, two men showering together (even or especially in a military context) and using language like “hard” and “get yourself in a lather” is undeniably a humorous reference to gay men.
This 1942 ad for Lifebuoy soap is a great example of shifts in collective cultural awareness of homosexuality.