How to be gay / David M. Halperin.

Halperin, David M., 1952-
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • B+ could try harder — Diary of a scandal — History of an error — American falsettos — Gay identity and its discontents — Homosexuality’s closet — What’s gayer than gay? — The queen is not dead — Why are the drag queens laughing? — Culture and genre — The passion of the crawford — Suffering in quotation marks — The beauty and the camp — Mommie queerest — Gay family romance — Men act, women appear — The sexual politics of genre — Tragedy into melodrama — Bitch baskets — Gay femininity — Gender and genre — The meaning of style — Irony and misogyny — What is gay culture? — Judy Garland vs. identity art — Culture vs. subculture — Queer forever — Endnotes — Acknowledgments — Index.

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