The Knitting Circle Popular Culture Contents Popular music sub-section.
Popular culture inhabits all of our lives in one form or another.
This book brings together critics, writers and artists to discuss the possibilities of popular culture for lesbians and gay men. Doty is evidently happier with gathering examples and offering specific readings than with proposing a coherent queer methodology - his attempt in this direction is confused and contorted. . . Doty engagingly dissects particular series episodes, among them two in which Laverne married Shirley. And he makes a convincing case that the occasional lesbian episodes of, say, 'Golden Girls' serve to affirm, by contrast, the surface heterosexuality of a series' regulars, thereby reassuring viewers who peer too deeply below the surface or wonder why they're so glad to root for the single 'girls'. Visitors to the Dome on Saturday demanded a refund after they saw two men kissing.