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Homosexuality and the 1960S Crisis of Masculinity in the Gay Deceivers
Why Don’t You Take Your Dress Off and Fight Like a Man? WHY DON’T YOU TAKE YOUR DRESS OFF AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN?: HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE 1960S CRISIS OF MASCULINITY IN THE GAY DECEIVERS BRIAN W OODMAN University of Kansas During the 1960s, it seemed like everything changed. The youth culture shook up the status quo of the United States with its inves- titure in the counterculture, drugs, and rock and roll. Students turned their universities upside-down with the spirit of protest as they fought for free speech and equality and against the Vietnam War. Many previously ignored groups, such as African Americans and women, stood up for their rights. Radical politics began to challenge the primacy of the staid old national parties. “The Kids” were now in charge, and the traditional social and cultural roles were being challenged. Everything old was old-fashioned, and the future had never seemed more unknown. Nowhere was this spirit of youthful metamorphosis more ob- vious than in the transformation of views of sexuality. In the 1960s sexuality was finally removed from its private closet and cele- brated in the public sphere. Much of the nation latched onto this new feeling of openness and freedom toward sexual expression. In the era of “free love” that characterized the latter part of the decade, many individuals began to explore their own sexuality as well as what it meant to be a traditional man or woman. It is from this historical context that the Hollywood B-movie The Gay Deceivers (1969) emerged. This small exploitation film, directed by Bruce Kessler and written by Jerome Wish, capitalizes on the new view of sexuality in the 1960s with its novel (at least for the times) comedic exploration of homosexu- ality. -
A Look at 'Fishy Drag' and Androgynous Fashion: Exploring the Border
This is a repository copy of A look at ‘fishy drag’ and androgynous fashion: Exploring the border spaces beyond gender-normative deviance for the straight, cisgendered woman. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/121041/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Willson, JM orcid.org/0000-0002-1988-1683 and McCartney, N (2017) A look at ‘fishy drag’ and androgynous fashion: Exploring the border spaces beyond gender-normative deviance for the straight, cisgendered woman. Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, 8 (1). pp. 99-122. ISSN 2040-4417 https://doi.org/10.1386/csfb.8.1.99_1 (c) 2017, Intellect Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing [email protected] including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. [email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ 1 JACKI WILLSON University of Leeds NICOLA McCARTNEY University of the Arts, London and University of London A look at ‘fishy drag’ and androgynous fashion: Exploring the border spaces beyond gender-normative deviance for the straight, cisgendered woman Abstract This article seeks to re-explore and critique the current trend of androgyny in fashion and popular culture and the potential it may hold for gender deviant dress and politics. -
`This Right of Privacy'
4.1.41..4.444.y •■•■,44., s4.61:144.: , RVER SE 250 OBA Journal of Free Voices A Window to the South Feb. 16, 1973 `This right of privacy' Austin them, but because irrational emotionalism The decision came down the day infects them. And during the last 20, 30, Lyndon Johnson died and the impending 40, 50 years of public discussion of peace in Vietnam topped even that story. abortion, both sides have always seen the It was not what you call your slow news question, finally, as one of Right Against day, so the impact was muted. But it was Wrong. This has been true of the abortion not just the timing — even those who have debate to a far greater extent than it is of fought for, worked for and believed most public debates on such simple topics as deeply in the reform of our abortion laws defense posture, welfare reform, campaign did not feel like celebrating. There was one spending and the like. For example, who report of a party in the San Francisco could ever forget the Solid Rock League? office of the National Organization of For those of you who have never had a Women, but for many feminists it just chance to forget them, it should be noted didn't seem like a champagne occasion. It that the Solid Rock League of Women of was a little like the end of the war — more Houston is against genocide or child relief than joy. Sarah Weddington said slaughter. The Solid Rockers also oppose calmly that she was "pleased, very common-law marriages for teenagers, pleased." She is the Texas lawyer who won pornography and "the taking away of the case. -
QUEER UTOPIA and REPARATION: RECLAIMING FAILURE, VULNERABILITY, and SHAME in DRAG PERFORMANCE by Rodrigo Peroni Submitted to C
QUEER UTOPIA AND REPARATION: RECLAIMING FAILURE, VULNERABILITY, AND SHAME IN DRAG PERFORMANCE By Rodrigo Peroni Submitted to Central European University Department of Gender Studies In partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in Critical Gender Studies. Supervisor: Professor Eszter Timár Second Reader: Erzsébet Barát CEU eTD Collection Budapest, Hungary 2017 Abstract This thesis discusses the critical and queer utopian potential of two performances by Ongina and Alaska Thunderfuck - two contemporary American drag queens. Based on Ongina’s “Beautiful” lip-sync performance and Alaska Thunderfuck's “Your Makeup Is Terrible” video clip, I argue that the performance of failure, vulnerability, and shame troubles multiculturalist discourses for their perpetuation of the neoliberal and masculinist values of individual success (chapter 1), authentic autonomy (chapter 2), and proud stable identity (chapter 3). While and because these performances defy the drag genre’s conventions and drive us to reconsider the prevalent forms of resistance to heterosexism, they also engender a queer utopian potential that allows the imagining and experiencing of alternative ethics. I rely on José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of disidentification and Eve Sedgwick’s notions of paranoid and reparative reading to propose queer communitarian bondings that are not radical nor durable but more inclusive and self-transformative. By interpreting ugliness as failure, I argue that in uglifying themselves Ongina and Alaska expose the meritocracy of neoliberalism and suggest an ethics based not on aesthetic pleasure but on a reparative appreciation of the awful that queers the very notion of community for not holding on to stable identities nor individual achievements. Drawing on a Levinasian discussion of vulnerability and care, I discuss how Alaska disidentifies with the reality TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race's deployment of vulnerability as relatable authenticity while suggesting an alternative ethics with which to encounter the Other based on witnessing, risk, and ungraspability. -
Drag Shows: Drag Queens and Female Impersonators by Andres Mario Zervigon
Drag Shows: Drag Queens and Female Impersonators by Andres Mario Zervigon Encyclopedia Copyright © 2015, glbtq, Inc. Entry Copyright © 2002, glbtq, Inc. Reprinted from http://www.glbtq.com Drag performer Lady Bunny. Female impersonation appears to have existed through the length of human Portrait by Sasha civilization and the breadth of its cultures. Ancient Roman literature and history Vaughn, courtesy feature a multitude of male cross-dressers, while in numerous Native American ladybunny.net. cultures, cross-dressing berdaches were respected as prophets and seers who were able to glimpse the world through both masculine and feminine perspectives. In the late nineteenth century, Richard von Krafft-Ebing observed in his Psychopathia Sexualis (1887) that the smallest German hamlets often featured drag culture. In contemporary India men who choose to live and dance as women are regarded with particular religious reverence. Female Impersonation and Sexual Identity Female impersonation need say nothing about sexual identity. For example, many male actors in Elizabethan England and in the classical Chinese theater performed female roles because women were generally banned from the stage. Whether or not these performances blurred the sexual identification of the actors remains a point of debate in social and theater history and a focus of recent films such as Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Farewell My Concubine (1993). Although transvestism, a term coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910 and derived from the Latin for "across" and "dress," is practiced mostly by heterosexual males, the performance of female impersonation has come to be associated particularly with glbtq culture. Why this should be so is not altogether clear, but it may be that gender transgression is a component of sexual transgression or at least evokes empathy among those crossing sexual boundaries, particularly when these boundaries seem difficult to define. -
Cross Dressing Newsletters Collection
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8b85b29 No online items Guide to the Cross Dressing Newsletters Collection Special Collections & Archives University Library California State University, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street Northridge, CA 91330-8326 URL: https://library.csun.edu/SCA Contact: https://library.csun.edu/SCA/Contact © Copyright 2020 Special Collections & Archives. All rights reserved. Guide to the Cross Dressing SC.CDN 1 Newsletters Collection Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives Title: Cross Dressing Newsletters Collection Creator: California State University, Northridge. University Library Identifier/Call Number: SC.CDN Extent: 9.17 linear feet Date (inclusive): 1974-2001 Abstract: This collection consists of newsletters issued by local chapters of Tri-Ess (an educational and support group for heterosexual cross dressers) in the United States, and independent groups in the US and abroad. The newsletters report local activities, discuss current topical issues, and in general serve as a forum for the interests and concerns of the cross dressing community. Language of Material: English Historical Note: The library created this collection of materials for study and research. Scope and Contents The Cross Dressing Newsletters Collection consists of newsletters issued by local chapters of Tri-Ess (an educational and support group for heterosexual cross dressers) in the United States, and independent groups in the US and abroad. The newsletters report local activities, discuss current topical issues, and in general serve as a forum for the interests and concerns of the cross dressing community. Most are written, printed, and reproduced by members. They vary in length from a single sheet to ten or fifteen pages. These materials are arranged alphabetically by title of publication. -
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. !]\fnaissance ~ws 1l. Volume 6, No. 3 Vision - Integrity - Quality March, 1992 Police departments cop out on transsexual's civil rights by Elsa Larson the "male" of"female" blocks on the male, and was unconvinced when and Paula Jordan Sinclair A transsexual member of the application, instead noting that she she explained that she had followed Lower Susquehanna Valley chap is a male-to-female transsexual. the Pennsylvania Department of ter of Renaissance ran afoul of two That didn't fly with officials, and Motor Vehicles procedure for chang police departments when she tried they forced her to check the male ing the sex designation of licenses. to get hired as a cop. A detective at block. Now that she is two years He also was unmoved when she the Harrisburg police department into the "real life test" required produced documentation from her was so incensed that her drivers' before sexual reassignment surgery, counselor. license said she is female that he she returned to the police depart Glad called in another officer, an detained her for four hours and ment to change her sex designation "expert" on drivers' licenses, Cpl. threatened her with arrest and a to female. Isaac Nixon. Both Glad and Nixon strip search. Shortly afterward, The process seemed to be pro made it clear to Streeper that they police in Upper Allen said she was a ceeding smoothly with routine in were going to arrest her for carrying prime suspect in a criminal case. terviews and fingerprinting. The false identification. They repeatedly Markely Streeper's problems trouble began when police detective · told her that they would order a began in mid-January when she Larry Glad, assigned to the depart strip search and have her confined went to the Harrisburg bureau of ment's internal affairs section, in the male section of the jail. -
Sissy!: the Effeminate Grotesque in U.S
SISSY!: THE EFFEMINATE GROTESQUE IN U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE SINCE 1940 Harry Osborne Thomas Jr. A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Chapel Hill 2011 Approved by: Minrose Gwin Fred Hobson John Howard Timothy Marr Ruth Salvaggio ©2011 Harry Osborne Thomas Jr. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT HARRY OSBORNE THOMAS JR: Sissy!: The Effeminate Grotesque in U.S. Literature and Culture Since 1940 (Under the direction of Minrose Gwin) In his memoir Firebird, Mark Doty explains that being effeminate in postwar America means being treated paradoxically: “The queer boy’s dynamic,” he writes, is to be “simultaneously debased and elevated.” This study explores the paradox that Doty describes by examining representations of effeminate men and boys in U.S. literature and culture from 1940 to the present. I argue that effeminacy has routinely been depicted in terms of the grotesque, a mode of visual and textual representation concerned with bodies that provoke mixed feelings of both revulsion and fascination. By reading effeminacy through the critical lens of the grotesque, I re- evaluate its queer theoretical potential, and highlight a previously overlooked discursive tradition in U.S. literature and culture. In this tradition, effeminacy is embraced, rather than rejected, because it models new modes of masculine embodiment and functions symbolically as an alternative to the strictures of heteronormativity. This claim both extends and complicates previous scholarship on effeminacy, which focuses almost exclusively on how effeminacy has been hated in U.S. -
From the Freak Show to Modern Drag - Olivia Germann, Ball State University
Gender Performance: From the Freak Show to Modern Drag - Olivia Germann, Ball State University t is the season six finale of IRuPaul’s Drag Race, and the top Abstract three queens are waiting to see This paper explores how gender performance in who will be crowned America’s the freak show grew into the modern drag scene as we know it today. By examining some of the Next Drag Superstar. The modern elements of drag, it is possible to see how finalists’ bodies exceed our almost these performers circumvented the laws, preju- unattainable beauty standards, and dices, and discrimination aimed towards them to their hair seems to defy gravity. create a booming industry where drag queens Courtney Act, one of the finalists, appear on national television and are treated with is a singer from Australia; her the respect that they had previously been denied. normally blonde wig has been replaced with a bright pink one, and she’s wearing a technicolor dress that looks like something out of a Bowie video. Next to her is Adore Delano, another singer, whose fire red wig hangs down to her ample bosom (thanks to a chest plate), while her black gown screams of sequins. And on the very end is Bianca Del Rio, a comedian queen who specializes in insult comedy and more traditional drag, wearing one of her typical wigs: large, black, and topped with a huge spray of colored fabric. Her eyes are made up in her typical fashion, with copious amounts of white eyeliner to feminize her eyes and make them pop. -
The Use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy on Two Case Reports of Paraphilic Infantilism, Substance Misuse and Childhood Abuse
MOJ Addiction Medicine & Therapy Case Report Open Access The use of cognitive behavioural therapy on two case reports of paraphilic infantilism, substance misuse and childhood abuse Abstract Volume 3 Issue 2 - 2017 Very limited research has looked at the use of cognitive behavioural therapy on Samantha Banbury,1 Joanne Lusher,1 paraphilic infantilism. Two case descriptions of paraphilic infantilism coexisting 1 2 with substance use disorders and anxiety and/or a mood disorder are discussed. Both Catherine Athanasiadou Lewis, John Turner 1London Metropolitan University, UK cases presented with a history of childhood physical and sexual abuse. One of the 2East London University, UK cases also reported engaging in transvestism during periods of stimulant abuse and paraphilic infantilism during substance misuse stabilisation or opiate intoxication. The Correspondence: Samantha Banbury, School of Psychology, application of cognitive behavioural techniques revealed that both cases’ paraphilic London Metropolitan University, 166-220 lloway Road, London conduct was associated with their substance misuse and whilst they attended a drug N7 8DB, England, UK, Email [email protected] maintenance programme, they did not wish to pursue any treatment intervention regarding their paraphilic behaviours. Both case descriptions of paraphilic behaviour Received: January 29, 2017 | Published: April 11, 2017 are discussed in the context of substance misuse, mental health and the triggers associated with relapse. Keywords: paraphilic infantilism, -
The Haus of Frau: Radical Drag Queens Disrupting the Visual Fiction of Gendered Appearances
The Haus of Frau: Radical Drag Queens Disrupting the Visual Fiction of Gendered Appearances John Bryan Jacob Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Clothing and Textiles Catherine Cerny, Co-Chair Ann Kilkelly, Co-Chair Katherine Allen Scott Christianson Valerie Giddings Rebecca Lovingood May 7, 1999 Blacksburg, Virginia Keywords: Gender, Appearance, Identity, Gay Studies, Women’s Studies Copyright 1999, John Bryan Jacob THE HAUS OF FRAU: RADICAL DRAG QUEENS DISRUPTING THE VISUAL FICTION OF GENDERED APPEARANCES John Bryan Jacob (ABSTRACT) This research considers the connections between appearance and identity apparent in the social experience of five gay male drag queens. Appearing at variance with gender norms that underwrite male appearance in mainstream society and among gay men prompted social consequences that impacted their identities and world views. One aim is to apprehend the experiences of difference that drag appearance manifest and expressed. Another aim is to gain a new perspective on the social construction of gendered appearances from marginalized persons who seem to look from the “outside” in toward mainstream social appearances and relations. Qualitative analysis relied on interview data and occurred using grounded theory methodology However, analysis gained focus and intensified by engaging Stone’s (1970) theorizing on “Appearance and the Self,” Feminist articulations of “the gaze” and poststructural conceptions of the discursively constituted person as “the subject.” This research especially emphasizes the points of connection between Stone’s theorizing and more recent feminist theoretical advancements on the gaze as they each pertain to appearance, identity and social operations of seeing and being seen. -
In Transition: Analyzing Shifting and Competing Anglophone Discourses
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Saskatchewan's Research Archive In Transition: Analyzing Shifting and Competing Anglophone Discourses Impacting Canadian Trans People A thesis submitted to the College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan By Maaya Kuri Hitomi Copyright Maaya Kuri Hitomi, June/2018. All rights reserved Permission of use In presenting this thesis in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Postgraduate degree from the University of Saskatchewan, I agree that the Libraries of this University may make it freely available for inspection. I further agree that permission for copying of this thesis in any manner, in whole or in part, for scholarly purposes may be granted by the professor or professors who supervised my thesis work or, in their absence, by the Head of the Department or the Dean of the College in which my thesis work was done. It is understood that any copying or publication or use of this thesis/dissertation or parts thereof for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. It is also understood that due recognition shall be given to me and to the University of Saskatchewan in any scholarly use which may be made of any material in my thesis. Head of the Psychology Department 154 Arts, 9 Campus Drive Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5A5 Canada OR Dean College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies University of Saskatchewan 116 Thorvaldson Building, 110 Science Place Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5C9 Canada i Abstract Medical, community, and academic discourses offer competing interpretations of sex, gender, and the complexities of trans experiences, with variable attention to trans contributions to social and political thought and practice.