Mr Tony Charalambous

Brothers In Arms – research abstract

This research project is about understanding the power and intensity of sibling relationships; in this case queer brother – straight brother relationships.

It is about whether being raised in a Greek Patriarchal society particularly engenders rivalry and conflict between such brothers and the resulting consequences these influences have on their lives.

It is part of human nature that we are all impaired to some degree by the dysfunction of family relationships.

Whilst we often cite the parents’ role in our upbringing as the origin of this, it is often the strength and intensity of the sibling bond that determines how constructive or destructive that relationship is, and which unto itself, manifests the dysfunction.