Paul Burston - A Queer Romance

Its here and its queerpopular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. AQueer Romance brings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilities of popular culture for lesbians and gay men.

In a collection that is in-yer-face but never out-to-lunch, the contributors variously visit debates about the gaze to provide a new theory of Queer viewing; discuss texts coded as queerfrom lesbian vampires to Hollywoods use of gay codes in mainstream films such as Top Gun and Black Widow; discover whether Sandra Bernhard is really a black man masquerading as a Jewish dominatrix; consider the sexual and cultural narratives at play in the world of home shopping catalogues; explore the pleasures and perils of gay cultural production, from the radically queer film-making of Monika Treut to the wild world of homocore fanzines, and address the possibilities of texts claiming to be for the gay spectatorfrom pornography by women, for women and about women to Out TV.

The contributors to AQueer Romance dont all agree, but, taken together, the collection argues strongly that everyone can have their queer moments.

The editors: Paul Burston is the Gay Editor on Time Out, Consultant Editor on Attitude magazine, and the author of What Are You Looking At? (Cassell). Other publications he has written for include the Guardian, Sight and Sound and The Modern Review. Colin Richardson is Assistant Editor of Gay Times, writes for a number of journals and is the author of the handbook Equal Opportunities Policy into Practice: Sexuality. He helped to establish the lesbian and gay film and video distribution company OUT On A Limb Ltd, and is a member of the management committee of GALOP (Gay London Policing).

A QUEER ROMANCE

Lesbians, gay men and popular culture

Edited by Paul Burston and Colin Richardson

First published 1995
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

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Editorial matter 1995 Paul Burston and Colin Richardson

Individual chapters 1995 respective contributors

Collection 1995 Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
A queer romance: lesbians, gay men and popular culture/ edited by Paul Burston and Colin Richardson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Gays in popular culture. 2. Homosexuality and art.
3. Homosexuality and literature.
4. Homosexuality-Public opinion.
I. Burston, Paul. II. Richardson, Colin.
HQ76.25.Q38 1994
305.90664dc20 9410783

ISBN 0-203-99094-3 Master e-book ISBN

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