1st Edition

LGBTQ Culture The Changing Landscape

Edited By Bruce E. Drushel Copyright 2021
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

Recent decades have seen remarkable changes in the cultural visibility, legal status, and social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, from positive representations of queerness in television series like The L-Word and Will & Grace , to films about queer intersectionality like Moonlight , to openly-gay and lesbian elected officials and leaders in the business community, to the end of anti-sodomy... Read more

1. Introduction: Of Acceptance and Celebration

Bruce E. Drushel

2. For the Little Queers: Imagining Queerness in ‘New’ Queer Children’s Literature

Jennifer Miller

3. Failed Fatherhood and the ‘Trap of Ambivalence’: Assimilation, Homonormativity, and Effeminophobia in The New Normal

Jonathan Branfman

4. We Do Not Know What Queers Can Do: LGBT Community between (In)visibility and Culture Industry in Serbia at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Andrija Filipović

5. Tumbling into Queer Utopias and Vortexes: Experiences of LGBTQ Social Media Users on Tumblr

Andre Cavalcante

6. Grindr Killed the Gay Bar, and Other Attempts to Blame Social Technologies for Urban Development: A Democratic Approach to Popular Technologies and Queer Sociality

Bryce J. Renninger

7. The Evolution Will Not Be Broadcast (or Published): Social Capital, Assimilation, and the Changing Queer Community

Bruce E. Drushel

Biography

Bruce E. Drushel is Professor and Chair in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Miami University. He is the founding co-editor of Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture and has published numerous books, including Queer Identities / Political Realities, The Ethics of Emerging Media, Star Trek: Fan Phenomenon, and Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic: Advancing New Perspectives.