Word: queered
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...