Harvard University Press, 1998. The elation of the ego worked by the show tune is not just voluntary , having its source and sustenance nowhere outside a subject who pulls himself up by the tongue on his tap shoes, but also vacuous , too exhausted by the violence of affirmation to acquire any objective reality beyond its own thus belittled grand gesture. Professor Miller is a respected commentator and his book makes some valid points, but trying to find them in all that academic verbiage is like digging through granite to find potatoes. I should also note that these essays were written in 1996 and posted on the internet in early 1998. Once the objects of scorn, musical theatre queens have recently become quite a fashionable breed.
Musical theatre queens are an accepted part of the basic gay stereotype.
Gays and popular culture owe each other a great deal, even though some may hate to admit it.