How To Be Gay
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2012
560 pages
978-0-674-06751-6 (ISBN)
Description
A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes-aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers-and in the social meaning of style.
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David M. Halperin
How to be Gay
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08/2012
The Belknap Press
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David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Part One: B+ Could Try Harder
- 1. Diary of a Scandal
- 2. History of an Error
- Part Two: American Falsettos
- 3. Gay Identity and Its Discontents
- 4. Homosexuality's Closet
- 5. What's Gayer Than Gay?
- 6. The Queen Is Not Dead
- Part Three: Why Are the Drag Queens Laughing?
- 7. Culture and Genre
- 8. The Passion of the Crawford
- 9. Suffering in Quotation Marks
- 10. The Beauty and the Camp
- Part Four: Mommie Queerest
- 11. Gay Family Romance
- 12. Men Act, Women Appear
- 13. The Sexual Politics of Genre
- 14. Tragedy into Melodrama
- Part Five: Bitch Baskets
- 15. Gay Femininity
- 16. Gender and Genre
- 17. The Meaning of Style
- 18. Irony and Misogyny
- Part Six: What Is Gay Culture?
- 19. Judy Garland versus Identity Art
- 20. Culture versus Subculture
- 21. Queer Forever
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
