How to be gay [electronic resource] / David M. Halperin.
Halperin, David M., 1952-
2012
HQ76 .H2795 2012eb
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Title How to be gay [electronic resource] / David M. Halperin.
Author Halperin, David M., 1952-
ISBN 9780674067516 electronic book
0674066790 hardcover
9780674066793 hardcover
Imprint Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 549 p.) : ill.
Call Number HQ76 .H2795 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.76/62
Summary No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will protest. This, they will say, is just a stereotype. David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Carrying forward the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that he taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and the gay press, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the mainstream.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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