Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture
In television shows such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and movies like Brokeback Mountain, as well as gay young adult novels and other media coverage of queer people-including the outing of several prominent Republicans-queer lives are becoming more visible in the media and in U.S. culture more generally. How does the increasing visibility of queer subjects within mainstream culture affect possibilities for radical and transformative queer activism? Provocative and challenging, W. C....
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Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimiliation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U.S.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: A Hazard of Queer Fortunes 11 At the End of the Rainbow: Q-topian Literature and the Lure of Apolitical Identities 292 "In my day it used to be called a limp wrist": Flip-Floppers, Nelly Boys, and Homophobic Political Rhetoric 753 Queer Eye on the Prize: Homo Hands and the Activism of Camping 1054 Broke(n)back Faggots: Hollywood Gives Queers a Hobson's Choice 1275 The IMs Are Coming from Inside the House: Recruitment, the Closet, and the Right 143Conclusion: Like a Faggot from the Ashes 177Notes 197Works Cited 225Index 247
