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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...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (4): 567–587.
Published: 01 October 2022
... aesthetics Black ecologies Black geographies Black feminist theory matter The first night I met Betty in early October 2015, outside the Value Stay Motel in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Betty was watching me watching her. Experienced in being overdetermined by the political imagination of Black...
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GLQ (1995) 2 (1_and_2): 149–177.
Published: 01 April 1995
... the narrative trajectory that Marion’s journey must follow. What begins as a desperate and eroticized flight to the marital bed she would share with her lover ends, instead, on the bathroom floor in a cabin of the Bates Motel. Or ends, more precisely, in the waters of a swamp, as her corpse, now stuffed...
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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...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 291–315.
Published: 01 June 2024
... that now allow for women with access to disposable income to buy pleasure as a commodity, as men do. I consider the examples of erotic massages, strip clubs, and hourly hotels that I sometimes call sex hotels, which are locally called hoteles de paso , hotel garages, love hotels, or love motels...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (3): 215–239.
Published: 01 June 2014
... restrict, encumber, and distract from.23 In video porn, the locations are often motels, hotels, and anonymous resi- dential houses — or vans driving through urban spaces, as on the gonzo-­reality RISK AND UTOPIA: A DIALOGUE ON PORNOGRAPHY 227...
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GLQ (2001) 7 (1): 101–109.
Published: 01 January 2001
... traffic, and in the adjoining motels or the apartments of one or another participant, from which nonsexual friendships and/or acquaintances lasting for decades or a lifetime may spring. (123) Delany sees contact as valuable because...
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GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 319–328.
Published: 01 April 2006
..., this practice with 324 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Figure 2. Jim in Miami motel, from Video Remains tape, I hollow out its melancholic, indexical power — video as technological dura- tion solution — and sacrifice this to a shared project of nostalgia, where...
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GLQ (2004) 10 (2): 179–209.
Published: 01 April 2004
..., maybe they were right.” And so we went out and got into this very large car with a built-in telephone. Well, those weren’t all that common in 1964. So I thought, “Well there’s money here.”42 . . . During the drive into town I learned I would be put up at a motel. The room...
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GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 627–629.
Published: 01 October 2005
... novel sold millions of copies; critics lauded it with almost unanimous praise. Years of living in motels in Kansas while following the investigation of the brutal killings and the tumultu- 638 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES ous trial and hanging of the killers paid off...
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GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 630–632.
Published: 01 October 2005
... to imagine how successful this publishing event was. Capote’s picture appeared simultaneously on the covers of several national magazines; his novel sold millions of copies; critics lauded it with almost unanimous praise. Years of living in motels in Kansas while following the investigation...
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GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 632–634.
Published: 01 October 2005
... to imagine how successful this publishing event was. Capote’s picture appeared simultaneously on the covers of several national magazines; his novel sold millions of copies; critics lauded it with almost unanimous praise. Years of living in motels in Kansas while following the investigation...
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GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 635–637.
Published: 01 October 2005
... to imagine how successful this publishing event was. Capote’s picture appeared simultaneously on the covers of several national magazines; his novel sold millions of copies; critics lauded it with almost unanimous praise. Years of living in motels in Kansas while following the investigation...
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GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 637–640.
Published: 01 October 2005
... to imagine how successful this publishing event was. Capote’s picture appeared simultaneously on the covers of several national magazines; his novel sold millions of copies; critics lauded it with almost unanimous praise. Years of living in motels in Kansas while following the investigation...
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GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 640–642.
Published: 01 October 2005
... novel sold millions of copies; critics lauded it with almost unanimous praise. Years of living in motels in Kansas while following the investigation of the brutal killings and the tumultu- 638 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES ous trial and hanging of the killers paid off...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (4): 485–503.
Published: 01 October 2024
...—via public transportation and on foot. In one of the film's more raucous scenes, Sin-Dee barges into a filthy motel-room brothel packed with sex workers and their clients. As the johns, in various stages of undress, look on aghast, Sin-Dee drags a shoeless and shrieking Dinah by her wispy blonde...
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GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 249–272.
Published: 01 June 2007
... in love” with the young blond man whom he met while on vacation with Cathy. Yet the promise of an idyllic happily-ever-after for Frank is undermined by the implied cynicism of his final scene, in which he is seen in a badly decorated motel room, his face half-shadowed as he...
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GLQ (2025) 31 (1): 111–135.
Published: 01 January 2025
... holing up in a motel with a bunch of heroin so she can “obliterate” herself (115). These practices of “ordinary inefficiency” call to mind Berlant's ( 2011 : 115–17) “lateral agency”: strategies that allow the precarious subject to coast temporarily in the “shifting, diffuse, sensual space between...
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GLQ (2004) 10 (3): 509–538.
Published: 01 June 2004
... unconstitutional). But see Oral Arg. Tr. of Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U.S. (1964), 241. Solicitor General Cox: “We shall solve the problems as one people, and thus escape the consequences of the sins of the past, only if we act in the spirit of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural...