... articulates how Palestinian cultural politics were constructed as “politically queer” during the 1990s culture wars, which thereby contributed to the rise of homonormativity, increased visibility of leftist LGBTQ-Palestinian solidarity politics, and the development of Israeli pinkwashing as a political...

... market-induced cultural parallels to earlier decades of the twentieth century, before the post-Cold War intensification of globalizing processes. These studies confirm the importance of the market in global queering. They also reveal that international commonalities reflect emergent parallels among...

...) defines this practice as “homonationalist.” In mediations of the Pulse shooting, LGBT minorities are integrated into the homonationalist project of narrating North American cultural values as more “advanced” than those of its enemies in the “war on terror.” By virtue of the national location...

... theorization of the black ecstatic attends specifically to the interrelation of political terror, social abjection, and aesthetic abstraction in contemporary black queer cultural production. As an affective and aesthetic practice, the black ecstatic eschews both the heroism of black pasts and the promise...

... of eugenics, economic activity, or one’s contribution to the war effort. The mass culture of the Cold War tended instead to contrast politics to conventional forms of romance and domesticity, treating normal intimacy as the opposite of ideology insofar as love...

... and its relation to male bodies and masculinity have played an important role in what Eve Sedgwick called the “war on effeminate boys.” The incredible prominence of sport in our culture, as an obligatory form of physical activity for schoolchildren, as venerated form...

... on globalization, anti- colonial nationalism, and the so-­called cultural wars between Western and non- ­Western cultures, queers (as well as their politics) become saturated with excessive symbolic meaning, representing much more than concerns about sexual identities or acts...

.... “In today’s Israeli culture war,” she notes, “queerness — ­or at least the tolerance of queerness — ­has acquired a new rhetorical value for mainstream Zionism: standing against the imposition of fundamentalist religious law, it has come to stand for democratic liberalism.”3...

... politics in the U.S., coauthored by a well-known team of non-LGBT-associated polit- ical scientists. They based their analysis on “a comprehensive national sur- vey” methodology whose questions they drew up. The analysis was posed in terms of a “culture war, rooted in different systems of moral...

... in the cultural wars by documenting the political and legal controversies surrounding various artists and exhibitions. In introducing part 4, “Looking Ahead—Challenges for Future Research,” the editors prophesy that “the future of lesbian and gay studies...

... Race: Living Theory and Practice . New York : Routledge . Kelley Robin D. G. 1997 . Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America . Boston : Beacon . Lewis Desire . 2011 . “ Representing African Sexualities .” In African Sexualities: A Reader , edited...

... one’s own assets). “Moving on,” the academic shareholders say, as they make their way to the cutting edge with the highest profit margin. Simply pointing this out might seem like you are going over to the other side of the culture wars, that side that wants to put...

... declined to oppose the inclusion of transgender personnel, so the issue did not become a new battleground in the culture wars. (4) The repeal of DADT embarrassed opponents who predicted disaster; increased the military s confidence that inclusive policy could be implemented smoothly; discredited the so...

... rights. Taken together they help us see how sexuality, race, and religion are complexly articulated through a habitual linking of identity and rights in the United States. They pose important questions about religion’s role — on both sides of the culture wars — both...

... of Ronald Reagan, the culture wars, an emer- gent neoliberalism, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic were converging to transform the political landscape. In an interview with Judith Butler published in differences in 1994, on the tenth anniversary of the publication of “Thinking Sex,” Rubin...

...: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES of the 1990s culture wars. So-­called normal Americans (Newt Gingrich’s term for besieged white, Christian, middle-­class heterosexuals) began to experience straight identity panic in the face of their declining social and economic status...

... Street Journal reporter opined that Brokeback achieved its financial success “by surgically targeting where the movie would play in its initial release; selling it as a romance for women rather than a controversial gay-bashing tale; and opting out of the culture wars rather than engaging them...

... Street Journal reporter opined that Brokeback achieved its financial success “by surgically targeting where the movie would play in its initial release; selling it as a romance for women rather than a controversial gay-bashing tale; and opting out of the culture wars rather than engaging them...

... Street Journal reporter opined that Brokeback achieved its financial success “by surgically targeting where the movie would play in its initial release; selling it as a romance for women rather than a controversial gay-bashing tale; and opting out of the culture wars rather than engaging them...

... Street Journal reporter opined that Brokeback achieved its financial success “by surgically targeting where the movie would play in its initial release; selling it as a romance for women rather than a controversial gay-bashing tale; and opting out of the culture wars rather than engaging them...