How to be gay
By: David M. Halperin
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780674066793; 9780674067516
Subjects: Gay men
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: B+ could try harder; title: Diary of a scandal; title: History of an error; title: American falsettos; title: Gay identity and its discontents; title: Homosexuality's closet; title: What's gayer than gay?; title: The queen is not dead; title: Why are the drag queens laughing?; title: Culture and genre; title: The passion of the crawford; title: Suffering in quotation marks; title: The beauty and the camp; title: Mommie queerest; title: Gay family romance; title: Men act, women appear; title: The sexual politics of genre; title: Tragedy into melodrama; title: Bitch baskets; title: Gay femininity; title: Gender and genre; title: The meaning of style; title: Irony and misogyny; title: What is gay culture?; title: Judy Garland vs. identity art; title: Culture vs. subculture; title: Queer forever; title: Endnotes; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.