Queer

Paris is Burning is an iconic film that gives the heterosexual world a look into the underground scene of queer culture that is the ballroom. The film presented new slang and phrases that people in the present still use, but the stories and the issues of the oppressed are often overlooked and forgotten. At the time of release in the 1990s, gay culture was still somewhat misunderstood, but Paris is Burning portrayed the struggles that gay individuals experience every day. The movie showed that…

conventional cisnormative and heteronormative identities, they cannot be studied in isolation, but must rather be viewed in terms of intersectionality. Mary Armstrong, in her essay, “Towards a Queer Pedagogy of Conflicted Practice,” identifies a tension between “identity politics based ‘lesbian and gay studies’ and a ‘queer’ poststructuralist revision of subjectivity that works to overturn the hegemonic absolutism embedded in all fixed identity models” (86). According to Armstrong, a…

While not directly related to queer seniors, this articles lays down a framework for the effects of ageism and poor self-esteem on living a good old age (Suen, 2017, p. 409; Schope, 2005, p. 23). Featherstone and Hepworth put forth the idea the old age becomes a performance of stereotypes…

According to Kenji Yoshino the author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, covering is "to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream" (Yoshino 2006: ix). In Covering Yoshino examines the consequences of covering in the queer community, specifically how it affects our rights as citizens…

seen by many that homophobia is still prevalent. Joel Penney is quite aware of this as his article entitled, “We Don’t Wear Tight Clothes”: Gay Panic and Queer Style in Contemporary Hip Hop, is centered on the aforementioned idea. In the article, Penney discusses how the ongoing feud, between masculine gangsta rappers and anti gay artists versus queer inspired rappers and musicians, has affected the landscape…

on it for example in ‘Queer Theory’ Is Entering The literary Mainstream Dinitia Smith mentions that “In Recent years, queer theory has become one of the most popular fields for graduate students in English Literature”(Smith) this shows that many people don’t have any harsh feelings for gay and lesbian people and they don’t care because that’s the most popular field in college. Many colleges have a positive view toward gay and lesbian people because they are recruiting queer theory theorist that…

intensified stigmas against the queer community, fostering discrimination and fear amid wide misinformation and prejudice. To further understand, I present The American Yawp’s Statements of AIDS Patients,…

Miller's Tale appears to be a story of a deeper homoerotic meaning. Even though we cannot really be certain of what Chaucer purposely implemented in his stories and what we just happen to interpret as “queer”, there are several telltale signs that lead us to believe…

The essay written by Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House” is a powerful piece written to highlight the struggles faced by racial and social minorities in America. She writes from the perspective of a queer feminist and also highlights that this not only relates to feminists, but to all black women. She says that the input from black women isn’t normally requested and therefore the problems faced by blacks are not addressed. Her opinion can be closely related…

so homosexuality being an identity in the later centuries of 16th and 17th, since then, there is a whole ideology in culture and history that has changed ideas of sexual identity and the way it has been construed. A person being defined as queer…