Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Miller, who has raised coyness to a critical art form, continues to practice it delightfully in Bringing Out Roland Barthes, where he approaches the French critic at that intersection of gay politics/identity/community/practice and literary criticism that has emerged in the past few years as queer theory. He sets out to articulate the present-but-never-explicit links between gay sexuality and Barthes's tests, and in doing so "proposes an album of moments...in what journalism might call my 'homosexual encounter' with Roland Barthes...
...would a man who had been frequently taunted with calls of "faggot" and "queer," who had been harassed because of his sexual preference, who feared being attacked by fellow sailors and who was soon to be released from military service make a homosexual advance on another naval officer...
During the discussion, students also discussed other pejoratives, such as "Jap," "kike" and "queer," how these terms were used and what reactions they elicited from listeners...
...foot, a woman's fingers. Then, towards the end of the show, he summoned the body again. But this time, these were the fingers of a friend, trampled and broken by policemen at a gay rights rally, or the smashed arm of someone victimized in a "queer-bashing" incident...
...since this was essentially Miller's own story, he began at the beginning--as a queer "spermlet" swimming upstream in search of an egg to fertilizer. Then, having in a sense created himself, he passed through an infancy surrounded by "mini dykes and fags" to puberty, when he "tried to use Noxzema to jerk off," to AIDS and the election of Ronald Reagan. By this time, he was spitting out his words in an angry spray of saliva that drifted over the first few rows of the audience...