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GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 501–520.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Matthew Goldmark This essay analyzes season 1 of the reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race to argue that the program presents drag as a path for upward mobility in the contemporary United States. At the same time, it demonstrates how language—in particular Spanish—troubles the program's...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 January 2009
... into a successful form of “white trash” performance called, “booger drag.” In another section she analyzes not only the subversive content, but also the timing of Landry's performances in a town that once was, but is no longer, necessarily queer. Analyzing Provincetown's history in the context of Landry's vexed...
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GLQ (2001) 7 (3): 425–452.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Judith Halberstam Duke University Press 2001 GLQ 7.3-06 Halberstam 5/24/01 1:46 PM Page 425
OH BEHAVE!
Austin Powers and the Drag Kings
Judith Halberstam
That ain’t no woman! It’s a man, man!
—Austin Powers...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 13–26.
Published: 01 January 2023
FIGURES
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GLQ (2022) 28 (3): 325–351.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Elizabeth Freeman's concept of “temporal drag” into conversation with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui's theorization of ch'ixi subjectivity to argue that temporal drag on ch'ixi bodies renders visible the impact of colonial norms surrounding race and sexuality in the creation of the modern Chilean nation-state...
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in Theorizing Kuirlombismos and Black Liberation across the Diaspora: Black Brazilian Artivists Challenge the Coloniality of Affect
> GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Published: 01 October 2022
Figure 2. Flyer for an arts workshop titled “Demonxtração” (a play on the words demon , demonstration , and demon extraction ), presented by performer Malyaka SN as part of Brazil's Black History Month in November. Drags refers to hegemonic drag performances, monsters is a reference
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GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 585–615.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé In the 1960s, camp's ironic register expanded to many of the decade's cultural and artistic discourses, becoming hegemonic in historical accounts. This essay examines the response of two queer diasporic Puerto Rican artists, the filmmaker José Rodríguez-Soltero and the drag...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 623–633.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Thea Gold Netalie Braun's short film Gevald (2008) is a lesbian love story set in a diverse Jerusalem drag club, against a backdrop of local Orthodox Jewish antigay protests. While the film portrays queerness as secularist, its portrayal of the complexities inherent in the intertwining conflicts...
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GLQ (2021) 27 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 April 2021
... moments and queer coded pieces of popular culture; Gothic literature, classic Hollywood film, science fiction B movies, Glam Rock, and drag all mingle in the queer cultural collage that makes up the show’s dramaturgy. As such, the scope of Rocky Horror serves as a kind of performative queer archive...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (2): 157–180.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Hollywood divas and their homosexual contemporaries such as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams; and the drag culture increasingly visible since the 1980s. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 bitchiness Jane...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 107–125.
Published: 01 January 2012
... on
the Scaffold) (dir. Margaret Gilpin and Luis Felipe Bernaza; 1996), a Cuban docu
mentary about a community of drag performers (or transformistas) in La Güinera,
a suburb of Havana. I focus on this example because it offers a compelling lan
guage for orienting us to the type of “work...
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GLQ (1998) 4 (2): 349–372.
Published: 01 April 1998
... of homophile politi-
cal activism, including the candidacy of drag entertainer Jose Sarria for the San
Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1961, and also resulted in a retaliatory police
backlash against gay activities in the city.4 While the general outlines of this story
have been...
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GLQ (1993) 1 (1): 17–32.
Published: 01 November 1993
... or impersonation? If gender is a mimetic effect, is it therefore a choice or a
dispensable artifice? If not, how did this reading of Gender Trouble emerge? There
are at least two reasons for the misapprehension, one which I myself produced by
citing drag as an example of performativity (taken then, by some...
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GLQ (2006) 12 (3): 475–490.
Published: 01 June 2006
... lipsticked. Though
Legorreta’s Caca Roaches costume was somewhat spare compared with his later
constructions, it still exemplifies the unique aesthetic he created for Cyclona: he
drew on conventions of drag performance with a gothic camp sensibility (he com-
pares Caca...
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GLQ (2000) 6 (1): 29–59.
Published: 01 January 2000
... Now? a drag cabaret act conceived and performed by Justin Bond and Kenny
Mellman.1 The performance ostensibly marks the latest comeback (in a lengthy
career of comebacks) of the aging cabaret stars Kiki and Herb. As embodied by the
youthful Bond, Kiki’s face and body tell her devastating history...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 January 2020
... as any drag queen s. A similar exploration of similitude underwrites the transposition across media that Warhol so relentlessly explored: from photograph to film in Sleep (1963), Empire (1964), and the Screen Tests (1964 66), each exploiting in vari- ous ways the stillness of the movies; from video...
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GLQ (1999) 5 (2): 199–230.
Published: 01 April 1999
...-
to-drag simulation encapsulated in the phrase, translated as “always happy in my
skirt,” also connotes for some Chicanos and Chicanas a playful adaptation of the
English gay into the Spanish fdiz and hence of the phrase into “always queer in
my skirt.”
If this polyvalence alerts us...
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GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 149–179.
Published: 01 April 2003
... that servicemen and veterans experienced at the sight of the
Amputettes must have derived not simply from seeing the men in drag (an image
not incompatible with military service) but from seeing artificial limbs, usually
associated with the solemnity of rehabilitation, peeking out incongruously from
beneath...
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GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 257–261.
Published: 01 April 2003
...—freaks and
drag queens, court jesters and scientific experiments. Sometimes we work for
money and are proud. Other times we’re just desperate. We’ve posed for anthro-
pologists and cringed in front of doctors, jumped through hoops and answered the
same questions over and over, performed the greatest...
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GLQ (2000) 6 (3): 467–478.
Published: 01 June 2000
... contention that as queer theory has been incorporated into the acad-
emy, it has lost contact with its origins in grassroots political activism.
Halberstam reanimates the personal voice to describe her ethnographic
research in her chapter “Drag Kings...
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