How to be gay / David M. Halperin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halperin, David M., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men.

Physical Description:

viii, 549 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

Contents:

Pt. 1. B+ could try harder. Diary of a scandal

History of an error

pt. 2. American falsettos. Gay identity and its discontents

Homosexuality's closet

What's gayer than gay?

The queen is not dead

pt. 3. Why are the drag queens laughing?. Culture and genre

The passion of the Crawford

Suffering in quotation marks

The beauty and the camp

pt. 4. Mommie queerest. Gay family romance

Men act, women appear

The sexual politics of genre

Tragedy into melodrama

pt. 5. Bitch baskets. Gay femininity

Gender and genre

The meaning of style

Irony and misogyny

pt. 6. What is gay culture? Judy Garland versus identity art

Culture versus subculture

Queer forever.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674066793

0674066790

OCLC:

781278940