This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. However, with the growing number of single people as part of the process of detraditionalization Giddens , they have also become important for all individuals living in late-modernity to meet social, emotional, and financial needs that had once been met by the heterosexual family. Still, this paper argues that Korean gay men face particular challenges in creating an affectional community in a country, where they have historically been permitted only sexual and not social relations.
They must not only overcome a primarily sex- and consumer-oriented gay culture, they must also reject romantic entanglements within the sports groups that threaten the group relationality of an affectional community based on friendship.
In examining the affectional community of Koreans sports groups, this article contributes to the ongoing theorization of queer globalization Cruz-Malave and Manalansan , Povinelli and Chauncey in the non-liberal and communitarian context of East Asia. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide.
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