Gay Fanzines: 'There's Trouble in That Body'. Cool Politics, Revolting Styles.

An analysis of gay fanzines: 'underground' magazines, mostly
self-published and badly distributed. As the author states: 'the
national flowering of underground gay punk fanzines, which
recolonize subcultural arenas provides us with a new map of
alternative gay identies'. The author's critisism: 'What all
these magazines share is a fusing of punk with drag and camp
sensibility and a revisionist articulation of the social
construction of gender and sexulatity'. Discussed are o.a.
Homocore, My Comrade/Sister, Sin Bros.


Citaten:
Hebdige, D.: Subculture; The Meaning of Style (1979)
Bronski, M.: Culture Clash (1984)
Altman, D.: The Homosexualization of America (1982)
James, D.: Hardcore (Film Quarterly 42,1988,n2)
Boston, V.: Punk Rock (1978)
D'Emilio, J.: Capitalism and Gay Identity (in: Powers of Desire 1983)
Foucault, M.: History of Sexuality (transl.1980)
Rubin, G.: Thinking Sex (in: Pleasure and Danger 1984)