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The rise and fall of gay culture / Daniel Harris.
LIBRA HQ76.2.U5 H347 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Daniel, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay community--United States.
- Gay community.
- Subculture--United States.
- Subculture.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 278 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Ballantine books ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- As gay culture is being increasingly assimilated into straight culture, is it losing its subversive edge, its very reason for being? "A spirited journey through gay life that delights and enlightens"--San Francisco Chronicle.
- Contents:
- Death of a camp; gay men and Hollywood diva worship, from reverence to ridicule
- Evolution of the personals and gay romance
- Invention to the Teflon magazine; from after dark to out
- Psychohistory of the homosexual body
- Evolution of gay pornography film
- Evolution of gay pornography; film
- Evolution of gay pornography; literature
- Origins of the underwear revolution in the gay subculture
- Death of kink; five stages in the metamorphosis of the modern dungeon
- Aesthetic of drag
- Kitshification of AIDS
- Glad-to-be-gay propaganda.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York, Hyperion, ©1997.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 034542672X
- 9780345426727
- OCLC:
- 40784486
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