Culture of Queers
For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. In The Culture of Queers, Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it.\ Opening with a discussion of the very concept of 'queers', Dyer asks what it means to speak of a sexual grouping having a culture, and addresses issues such as gay attitudes to women and the notion of camp. From screaming queens to sensitive...
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For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. In The Culture of Queers, Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it. Opening with a discussion of the very concept of 'queers', Dyer asks what it means to speak of a sexual grouping having a culture, and addresses issues such as gay attitudes to women and the notion of camp. From screaming queens to sensitive vampires and sad young men, and from pulp novels to pornography to the films of Fassbinder, The Culture of Queers explores the history of queer arts and media.
List of illustrationsIntroduction11The politics of gay culture (with Derek Cohen)152Believing in fairies: the author and the homosexual313Gay misogyny464It's being so camp as keeps us going495Dressing the part636It's in his kiss!: vampirism as homosexuality, homosexuality as vampirism707Queer noir908Coming out as going in: the image of the homosexual as a sad young man1169L'Air de Paris: no place for homosexuality13710Charles Hawtrey: carrying on regardless15211Rock: the last guy you'd have figured?15912Reading Fassbinder's sexual politics17513Idol thoughts: orgasm and self-reflexivity in gay pornography18714Homosexuality and heritage204Index229
