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Journal Article
GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 569–597.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., the essay draws from ethnographic research on the production and festival release of Desert Motel , Liza Johnson's short film (USA; 2005) about butch embodiment. The analysis sidesteps the familiar anxiety that queer encounters with market culture spell sexual, political, and artistic downfall for queer...
Journal Article
GLQ (2007) 13 (4): 535–541.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the
basis of our friendship unfolded not at the university but in the space of or in eye-
shot of the desert at its rawest. I don’t see how any other backdrop could have been
at once expansive enough and still enough to allow me to take in Wittig’s steadfast
intensity, meet her...
Journal Article
GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 643–645.
Published: 01 October 2005
... fi lms Desert Motel and Falling, the fi ve-channel video installa-
tion If Then Maybe, and the article “Perverse Angle: Feminist Film, Queer Film,
Shame,” which appeared in the Autumn 2004 issue of Signs. Her works have
been shown at international fi lm festivals like Rotterdam...
Journal Article
GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 575–602.
Published: 01 October 2011
... (113). “I would
never be lost to Jack,” the narrator surmises, “for Jack never could lose anything”
(114). He nevertheless resolves to uphold his earlier decision to remain love’s
protector (“I am like a great mother wing nourishing loves and never deserting
them” [95...
Journal Article
GLQ (2000) 6 (3): 435–450.
Published: 01 June 2000
... and
rape; and the third considers violence in marriage, desertion and incompatibility,
and romance and adultery. In every subsection Trumbach builds his argument with
engaging précis of cases from consistory court (early, mid-, and late 1700s); records
from...
Journal Article
GLQ (2006) 12 (1): 135–146.
Published: 01 January 2006
... Jennings and Loykie Lominé’s investigation of queer
Australian film finds that “preconceived notions of the relationship of the main-
stream to the margins became destabilized” (NQC, 146) by the hijinks of The
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). And Helen Hok-Sze Leung,
in her essay...
Journal Article
GLQ (2023) 29 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 April 2023
... background of the deserted commercial building. In addition to the scene described above, the other two scenes include one in which Yolanda recounts a joyful memory of her parents dancing, and the second when Mari reminisces about her grandmother. In both instances, the light breaking through the steel...
FIGURES
Journal Article
GLQ (2002) 8 (1-2): 183–206.
Published: 01 April 2002
... of these urban communities as a phe-
nomenon of gay, white males predominantly in the Western, industrialized world.
Jean-Ulrick Désert notes the media’s recognition that gays have “stabilized”
neighborhoods in cities such as Houston, Seattle, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Miami,
and Chicago...
Journal Article
GLQ (2002) 8 (4): 553–579.
Published: 01 October 2002
... and with devastating
results for his subjectivity, to the point of his total destruction.
This heterosexual panic is emphasized even more in the following scenes.
Immediately after the fantasy scene, the pioneers’ wives arrive suddenly out of the
desert, in effect coming to reinforce...
Journal Article
GLQ (2006) 12 (3): 441–464.
Published: 01 June 2006
...
men and women walking and
running, arm in arm, down an
otherwise deserted city street.
The poster presents the GLF...
Journal Article
GLQ (2011) 17 (2-3): 349–355.
Published: 01 June 2011
...
and wonderful final dancing scene as a form ofjouissance , from its (perhaps merely
fantasized) beginning as an awkward series of spasmodic movements before the
mirrored walls of a deserted nightclub dance floor, to its increasing frenzy and
the sinister delight of the dancercharacterGaloupturnedactor...
Journal Article
GLQ (2020) 26 (3): 576–581.
Published: 01 June 2020
... in isolation in a desert envi- ronment. He acknowledges in his at times incoherent ramblings that while the harsh surroundings turn him on, his lover is not fully sold on his living situation. This last detail colors the way we see their romp under the beating sun and opens up a subplot about the long- term...
Journal Article
GLQ (2002) 8 (1-2): 81–99.
Published: 01 April 2002
... to it as the “Son of Mardi Gras” and added,
“Songs and thongs, speeches and creatures: the closing ceremony featured Syd-
ney’s gay community represented by the controversial bevy of drag queens aboard
the bus from the hit film [The Adventures of ] Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.” 16
Many in Sydney’s gay...
Journal Article
GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 33–63.
Published: 01 January 2015
... condensation. (154)
And now, as the rain keeps falling on this deserted town, my
social relations cohere around all these militiamen I want to fuck inside
abstracted huts where no one lives anymore. (4)
My soldier thus becomes my swan, my muse...
Journal Article
GLQ (2007) 13 (4): 597–599.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Iain Morland Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert: Queer Rights/Race Privilege Damien W. Riggs New York: Peter Lang , 2006 . xx + 126 pp . Duke University Press 2007 Iain Morland is lecturer in cultural criticism at Cardiff University. Books in Brief
A Day...
Journal Article
GLQ (2021) 27 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 June 2021
... the Saharan desert in Northern Africa, where winds churn clouds of sandy dust up into the sky, over the Canary Islands, and then to the Caribbean, landing often in Puerto Rico and sometimes making it all the way to Mexico. These dust storms are ambivalent: they reduce visibility, leave a layer of dust over...
Journal Article
GLQ (2014) 20 (3): 297–318.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Martin’s Moments
of (A)sexual Abstraction
Around the same time that Solanas and Densmore theorized their respective “rad-
ical refusals” of sex, abstract expressionist artist Agnes Martin publicly disavowed
sex, leading a reclusive life in the New Mexico desert. Martin’s artistic practice...
Journal Article
GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 427–451.
Published: 01 October 2023
... to the compulsive desire to read the United States as a site of freedom. This desire, as Amira Jarmakani ( 2015 ) argues in An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror , is one of three key technologies of empire. For Jarmakani, these technologies work to orient citizens toward seemingly...
FIGURES
Journal Article
GLQ (2002) 8 (1-2): 57–79.
Published: 01 April 2002
... good-bye to his ex-friend com-
bines revenge, melancholy, and a strange geographic perception: “Y me alegro
mogollón, que se pudra en el desierto el muy hijoputa. Lo malo era lo buenazo que
estaba, y lo que a mí me molaba” [And I am very happy about it; I hope the son of
a bitch dies in the desert...
Journal Article
GLQ (1996) 3 (1): 139–157.
Published: 01 January 1996
... of money, and
unfulfilled homosexual desires. The injury is the belief that we’ve deserted our
people by going away to serve our more desirable benefactors, who would use
11s for their ends and seduce us into abandoning our own.
INTELLECTUAL DESIRE 141...
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