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Can Will and Grace be "queered"? (Essay).(gay themes in the television program 'Will and Grace')
QUEER THEORY proposes to understand the construction and operation of categories and the identities they shape and contain. In some early applications of queer theory to the analysis of popular culture, queer theorists examined mainstream texts that have been the staples of American popular culture. Alexander Doty, for example, performed a queer archaeology of such texts as Laverne & Shirley, The Jack Benny Program, and I Love Lucy and illustrated one of the central principles of queer theory: Queerness is about destabilizing conventional categories, subverting the identities derived from and normalized by heteropatriarchy. Queerness defies binary and fixed categories such ...
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