The internet and the making of binational gay couples

Patrick Awondo

The internet and the making of binational gay couples
Between emotional improvisation and the reconfiguration of the transnational gay space
Suivre cet auteur Patrick Awondo
In Sociétés contemporaines Volume 104, Issue 4, October 2016, pages 41 to 65

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The article aims at analyzing the formation of binational homosexual couples who met on the internet. Through the study of Franco-Cameroonian couples interviewed between 2008 and 2011 during doctoral research carried out in Paris, we try to grasp the conditions of gay international encounters. The article focuses on the way in which the internet changes the relative position of both subjects in their respective societies: on one hand, that of elder homosexual men sidelined and isolated in the gay scene of Paris; on the other hand, young Cameroonian homosexual men who try to escape the homophobic violence caused by the penalization of homosexuality in their country. These two entities who meet through the internet redesign the geography of homosexuality and call for a new analysis of the so-called internationalization of the gay issue. In this article we analyze more specifically self-nomination as homosexual or gay and the shift it brings in terms of identity and the way it shapes the offline construction of the couple, which faces many tensions.

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ISO 690		Copy AWONDO Patrick, « Internet et la fabrique du couple binational homosexuel. Entre bricolages affectifs et reconfiguration de l'espace homosexuel transnational », Sociétés contemporaines, 2016/4 (N° 104), p. 41-65. DOI : 10.3917/soco.104.0041. URL : https://preprod.cairn.info/revue-societes-contemporaines-2016-4-page-41.htm
ISO 690		Copy AWONDO Patrick, "The internet and the making of binational gay couples. Between emotional improvisation and the reconfiguration of the transnational gay space", Sociétés contemporaines, 2016/4 (No 104), p. 41-65. URL: https://preprod.cairn-int.info/journal-societes-contemporaines-2016-4-page-41.htm
MLA		Copy Awondo, Patrick. « Internet et la fabrique du couple binational homosexuel. Entre bricolages affectifs et reconfiguration de l'espace homosexuel transnational », Sociétés contemporaines, vol. 104, no. 4, 2016, pp. 41-65.
MLA		Copy Awondo, Patrick. "The internet and the making of binational gay couples. Between emotional improvisation and the reconfiguration of the transnational gay space", Sociétés contemporaines, vol. 104, no. 4, 2016, pp. 41-65.
APA		Copy Awondo, P. (2016). Internet et la fabrique du couple binational homosexuel: Entre bricolages affectifs et reconfiguration de l'espace homosexuel transnational. Sociétés contemporaines, 104, 41-65. https://doi.org/10.3917/soco.104.0041
APA		Copy Awondo, P. (2016). The internet and the making of binational gay couples: Between emotional improvisation and the reconfiguration of the transnational gay space. Sociétés contemporaines, 104, 41-65. https://preprod.cairn-int.info/journal--2016-4-page-41.htm.
DOI		Copy https://doi.org/10.3917/soco.104.0041

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