BUT DO NOT IDENTIFY AS GAY: A Proleptic Genealogy of the MSM Category

• Published in: Cultural anthropology Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 287 - 312
• Main Author: BOELLSTORFF, TOM
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.05.2011; Wiley Subscription Services; American Anthropological Association
• Subjects: AIDS; Anthropology; Classification; Cultural anthropology; Cultural identity; Gay communities; Gay rights; Gays & lesbians; Gender identity; Genealogy; History; HIV; HIV/AIDS; Homosexuality; Identification; Identity; LGBT; Localization; Men; MSM; Politics; Proleptic genealogy; Queer culture; Queer studies; Self concept; Sentence structure; Social anthropology

Growing numbers of persons worldwide are beginning to call themselves "men who have sex with men" or "MSM." How has this subject position come into being so swiftly, without the kind of social and political organizing associated with so many claims to identity? And how might cons...