Word: queered
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...other striking thing about her lyrics in Boys for Pele is perhaps the gay subtext that surfaces in a few of the tracks. In "Blood Roses," for example, she sings, "You think I'm a queer/ I think you're a queer/ I think you're a queer/ Said I think you're a queer." Or in "Hey Jupiter...
...included the French song "Complainte de la Seine," a litany of the refuse at river's bottom. She thus moved strangely from Weill's world of caviar and champagne to mucky vomit and severed limbs. Even more disconcerting was how, after she finished each melancholy song, she beamed a queer smile at the audience's hearty applause...
...political message, Shaw does not merely express it, she embodies it. Apart from the standard queer affirmation of homosexuality as natural (a theme of many gay and lesbian plays), Shaw confronts the political stigma of the bull dyke within the lesbian community...
...Just Like My Father finds ways to reinvent the one-woman, coming-of-age, queer play to create a truly superlative theater piece. She continues to push the boundaries of gay and lesbian theater, proving that the genre is alive and well...
Whatever You're Just Like My Father is, skin and ornaments is not. An indulgent and intensely boring self-portrait, Craig Hickman's piece proves that the standard queer coming-of-age play has lost its novelty, and that gay playwrights really need to move...