Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your fears that you don't know any gay people "like you," or that your hopes for a decent career will be ruined, they are nonsense. You, like everyone else, has been fed a steady diet of assertions and innuendo that homosexuals are perverted, disgusting, unlovable and, well, "queer." No wonder you spend all your energy differentiating yourself from any you happen to recognize! In fact, the gay people you recognize are the ones who want to be recognized. They broadcast their homosexuality through subtle and not-so-subtle, intentional and not-so-intentional clues, either to meet other...
...This is a cafeteria, isn't it?" asked Phillips, launching into a rendition of "Send in the Clams," and singing, "Isn't it rich, isn't it queer...
...then-lover, who learned he was HIV-positive at about the same time I did, dragged me to an ACT-UP meeting," Rafsky wrote last November in Queer World. "I found myself using my knowledge of the media to help them get recognition...
Later, in an open letter to Clinton published in Queer World, Rafsky acknowledged that his behavior at the fundraiser involved play-acting--but explained that he felt it was necessary...
...bludgeoned" by a feeling of exclusion at a wedding ceremony, in an incident that Miller relates at the beginning of his section of "The Novelesque," Miller ties this to an exclusionary heterosexual, accomplished through the near-synonymity of the oedipal drama and marriage with the traditional novel. That is, queer lives might in fact be consisered queer exactly because they don't conform to these stories, and Miller suggests that "gay fabulation...has been inseparable from a series of experiments needing to tamper with the most deeply imprinted aspects of traditional narrative form." Barthes enters this series of experiments with...