Sublime

slash explores the possibility of existing outside of those categories, of combining elements of masculinity and femininity into a satisfactorily whole yet constantly fluid identity.

emotional corporeality is moreover a central element to defining black racial authenticity.

This threat is in fact an attempt to counter the danger the men frequenting the park instantiate with their transgression of sexual and identitarian norms.

have. Self-consciousness about one’s “sexual orientation” keeps the issue of gender central at exactly the moment in human experience when gender really needs to become profoundly peripheral.

Explicitly drawing on black traditions of family, he imagined a partnership, extended kin networks, friendships, and gay social worlds as constituting something more vital.

none who protested the production of these men as twenty-first century sex deviants, or the almost extralegal management of their behavior by a local news station.9

close ties between male fans and male writers created barriers to female fans and this fandom’s traditions resisted inflection or redefinition.

semiotics

Slash throws conventional notions of masculinity into crisis by removing the barriers blocking the realization of homosocial desire;