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The rise and fall of gay culture / Daniel Harris.

LIBRA HQ76.2.U5 H347 1999
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Harris, Daniel, 1957-
Contributor:
Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)
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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