Culture clash : the making of gay sensibility /

Includes sections on homosexuality in the movies (Hollywood), in the theatre, in opera, and gay publishing.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bronski, Michael (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston, MA : South End Press, [1984]
Subjects:	Homosexuality > United States. Gay culture > United States. Homosexuality and the arts > United States. Homosexuality. Homoseksualiteit. Mannen. Homosexualität. United States. USA.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1. The making of gay sensibility. Walt Whitman
Edward Carpenter
John Addington Symonds
Birth of a sensibility
The cult of the imagination
The cult of beauty
The cult of male friendship
The cult of dispossession
The cult of the dandy
Oscar Wilde
After Wilde
Bloomsbury and the fathers
Children of the sun
America
Birth of the gay movement
Pt. 2. "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore". Movies: Hollywood homo-sense
Theater: the third sex and the fourth wall
Opera: mad queens and other divas
Gay publishing: books and periodicals (...and the word was made flesh...)
Gay publishing: pornography (...and dwelt among us...)
Gay publishing: advertising (...and was marketed)
Pt. 3. The theory of the pleasure class.