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Out on Stage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Out on Stage

This intriguing, authoritative book tracks stage representations of lesbians and gay men from Oscar Wilde to the present day and examines scores of British and American plays and playwrights, including works by Wilde, Maugham, Coward, Hellman, O'Neill, Le Roi Jones, and Joe Orton.

The Queerest Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The Queerest Art

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-07
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

The Queerest Art rereads the history of performance as a celebration and critique of dissident sexualities, exploring the politics of pleasure and the pleasure of politics that drive the theatre.

The Queerest Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

The Queerest Art

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-07
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

The Queerest Art rereads the history of performance as a celebration and critique of dissident sexualities, exploring the politics of pleasure and the pleasure of politics that drive the theatre.

Acts of Gaiety
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Acts of Gaiety

Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism by recovering earlier mirthful modes of political performance. The book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s–70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety—including camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside "legitimate theater”-- at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era. Juxtaposing figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists including Hothead Paisan, Bitch and Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers, Sara Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging. Acts of Gaiety explores the mutually informing histories of gayness as politics and as joie de vivre, along with the centrality of liveliness to queer performance and protest.

The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 749

Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies surveys the field in some 470 entries on individuals (Adrienne Rich); arts and cultural studies (Dance); ethics, religion, and philosophical issues (Monastic Traditions); historical figures, periods, and ideas (Germany between the World Wars); language, literature, and communication (British Drama); law and politics (Child Custody); medicine and biological sciences (Health and Illness); and psychology, social sciences, and education (Kinsey Report).

Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 919

Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures

Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this Encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavours. While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the Encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered. Written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new researchers this is intended as a reference for students and scholars in all areas of study, as well as the general public.

The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

Stages of Desire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Stages of Desire

"This is the first book to chart the history of lesbian and gay representation on the stage from the beginnings of drama in English until the nineteenth century. Carl Miller's wide-ranging survey uncovers a hidden heritage of romantic heroines, depraved villains, noble martyrs and hysterical queens. Voices of characters unheard for centuries are brought back to life in rare, rediscovered texts, alongside bold reassessments of classic plays. Offstage, the book investigates theatrical records, memoirs, history and erotica to reconstruct what went on in the dressing rooms and bedrooms of British theatres leading players. With provocative detail and contemporary insights, Stages of Desire demons...

Butch Queens Up in Pumps
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Butch Queens Up in Pumps

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture—from the inside