..., artistic, and political expression. It explores the politics of personality, style, and the male body as a site of desire. © 2015 by Ryan M. Davis 2015 Miguel Gutierrez queer dance performance Ryan M. Davis All the Possible Variations and Positions The Intimate Maximalism of Miguel...

... is revealed. M. Lamar’s multimedia artworks combine elements of horror, homoeroticism, s/m, Negro spirituals, opera, religious iconography, and ritual to subvert oppressive representations of the black male body. His work evades representations of “capture, containment, and capitalization” by conjuring...

..., Professor? PROFESSOR I’m lucky that way. The question is: what can he do I’d say, weird. MALE STUDENT FEMALE STUDENT with one hand tied behind his back? PROFESSOR I feel connected...

.... writing and producing plays was instituted, developed and con- Theparent is the male. . . And Ishall o#er youpmof of tinued in one city alone. Furthermore, classical Greek drama what I say. There can be a father without a mother. was not only exclusively Athenian, it was an exclusively male...

... the theatrical spell by ance, The Watcher and the Watched, of catalogued movements taken from stepping on stage to make an has been seen at Harvard, the the media and my own vocabulary of introductory speech. This, she says, Smithsonian, and in San Francisco “male...

.... own sex role conditioning and their stereotypical conceptions concer- ti6 A scene from Linda Walsh ,Jenkins’ Old Wzzm Tales, directed by Kebecca Becker, Northwestern University Theater. ning gender. Women playing male characters strip away layers of overcome conditioned timidity whcn...

... Note Boy The play is meant to be done three• Girl quarter round, and as close to the audi• Carlos ence as possible. Never on a proscenium Male voice stage...

... Male voice stage. Female voice The play must be approached as a formal, Person in audience almost religious ceremony. Costumes The actors must be calm and dignified Boy: Tie...

... decided to the ritual Feast of Roses, and then cast him In the late 1970s, Eric Bentley adapted produce the play. Rehearsals took place in off. The male offspring of such ritual sexual several of Kleist‘s plays for the American September and October 1984, and the play encounters is given away...

... there be but the one queer body? And does it have to be a young white male’s? Hang it all. It’s not that young white men can’t be queer-it’s just that maleness and whiteness don’t disappear at the drop of a name. I11 Get hard because I am a queer...

... never have male lovers). Often referred to as a kind of role-playing, butchness can more accurately be described as the denunciation of a given role. There are “hardcore” butches and “Saturday night” butches; “stone” butches and “soft” butches; butches who so define themselves because...

... ideas of male and female and the implicitly, these troupes had a political rationale: their anarchy, nature of the family. It is not simply a spinoff of gay liberation their eagerness to scandalize the suckers came across as a politics which questions the categories heterosexuality...

... match his words. traditional Middle Eastern storytelling poem, written in 1246, to con- The title Wolfson has given her story, male and female stories should conjure vince his father that he doesn’t want to however, suggests that Layla is not just up different settings...

... says, “We need a history of again next year in another handsome two-vol- cross-sex homosexual sociability that will take ume edition, maintaining the division between into account such diverse creative ‘couples’ as the lesbian book and the gay male one. It alpha- [Vita Sackville-West...

... of male roles by women, ambiguity.” The fundamental debate-“Does however temporarily, “put [ s] into question the cross-dressing undermine conventional mascu- naturalness, the inevitability, of dominant con- line and feminine behavior or does...

..., is revealed to repeated. Artists now take months creating works that will be respec- be the male ‘self or subject. In relationship to this subject, woman is table as art in their own right. The hope for liberation has become only “Other“, or object. Certain elements of identity enforce this sub...

... piece, The Knack,where I had to be this motorcycle Herculine was assigned to her gender at birth as a female. This tough. I felt that I was doing that, learning how to be a man was in the mid-1800s in France. She was kind of lower-middle my whole life. I was consciously constructing a male identity...

... to the sexual mores of his society. Male/male relationships were to be pure, innocent, asexual: male/female relations, while sexual, defined the female as pure and innocent. Later in his life, Ackerley moved from “pure” crushes to a penchant for rough trade. The young Ackerley, unlike Conrad, knew...

... in my own soul and color my relation- ships with women. Pleasure in giving pain to a woman is not that far removed I think,from a lot of male ex- periences. (D.H. Hwang, New York Times, March, 1988.) avid Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly will continue to Butterfly is certain he...

... reach. In his new ters of amazing substance and complexity crash. But what Jake did not foresee was his play, A Lie ofthe Mid,Shepard appears to self- who interact on an equal level with Shcpard’s own outburst of violence: hc has severely consciously court mainstream audiences for domineering males...