Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American Orientalism: Queer Romance. Michael Moon, Duke University. Boylston Auditorium...
...steaming platter of baby kittens" springs to mind) don't seem suitable for a vehicle on ABC called, say, Cross My Heart. Nor does Lea DeLaria seem quite ready for her own show. She begins her act by announcing, "It's the 1990s and it's hip to be queer and I'm a big dyke." As David Tochterman, vice president of talent and development for Carsey-Werner (Cosby, Roseanne), puts it, with dead seriousness, "The time may not be right for somebody with Lea's ability to be showcased properly on network television...
...TITLE: QUEER IN AMERICA: SEX, THE MEDIA, AND THE CLOSETS OF POWER...
Nonetheless, Shilts' opus will be around much longer than Michelangelo Signorile's Queer in America. The deterioration begins in the first lines of the introduction. "There exists in America what appears to be a brilliantly orchestrated, massive conspiracy to keep all homosexuals locked in the closet." Four lines later, Signorile's great conspiracy is "a relatively unconscious one, ingrained as it is in our culture...
...reader looking for consistency should open a jar of peanut butter rather than this screed. But as rancid gossip repackaged for national distribution, Queer in America is going to be hard to beat. Signorile learned his trade feeding items to New York City gossip columnists. He was an innuendo specialist who now touts himself as the pioneer of "outing," the distasteful practice of publicizing the private lives of homosexuals who do not feel the need to advertise what goes on in their bedrooms. By outing the famous, Signorile believes he is liberating all homosexuals from shame and guilt...