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Can Will and Grace be "queered"? (Essay).(gay themes in the television program 'Will and Grace')

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

| July 01, 2003 | Kanner, Melinda | COPYRIGHT 2003 Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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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