Sublime

My task here is not to signal the fluidity of cultural communities but rather to make a case for fandom as having any degree of coherence and stability at all.

There is a possible archaeological image of cross-dressing men on two Gotlandic picture-stones from Lärbro Tängelgårda. These show figures in the flowing dress that typically seems to signal women, some of them holding drinking horns, but a number of them appear to have beards and perhaps helmets. On one of the stones are four of these figures side

success stories,

We need a feminist account of such techniques of redirection.

disease on par with cancer. Rob Halford of the band Judas Priest was an openly gay man who adopted the regalia of studs and leather from gay bars in London that became the heavy metal “look” that so many macho metal dudes would copy.

It and programs like it have become part of the texture of gay life, part of the media ecologies that shape our daily practices and desires, that transform how we think of ourselves and how we move through the world.

Slash is not so much a genre about sex as it is a genre about the limitations of traditional masculinity and about reconfiguring male identity.

this obsession with niche identities advances the idea that at the heart of gender and sexuality is the notion of choice. This works directly against the ‘born this way’ mantra of the various gay liberation movements of the twentieth century.

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