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	Queer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Queer has traditionally meant 'strange' or 'unusual', but is now most often used in reference to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
		The expression 'in Queer Street' was used in the UK in the early 20th century for someone in financial trouble.
		This is the meaning of 'queer' most closely associated with the academic field known as queer theory, a field that looks to margins of the sexual spectrum to explore and deconstruct societal understandings of fixed sexual identities, and of identities and categories in general.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queer (1448 words)

	Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures concern the culture, knowledge, and references shared by members of sexual minorities or transgendered people by virtue of their membership in those minorities or their state of being transgendered.
		The term Queer is perceived by many to be political or objectionable, although others use it as the primary description of their sexual minority culture.
		The study of transgender culture as such is complicated by the many and various ways in which cultures deal with gender.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queer_culture (2075 words)

	Queer
		Queer is used as a unifying umbrella term for people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and also for those who are transgender, transsexual, and/or intersexual (although many transgender, transsexual and intersexual people identify as heterosexual or straight, and/or not queer).
		Queer studies are the academic study of issues raised in literary theory, political science, history, sociology, ethics, and other fields by an examination of the identity, lives, history, and perception of Queer people.
		For decades queer was used solely as a derogatory adjective for gays and lesbians, but in the 1980s the term began to be used by gay and lesbian activists as a term of self-identification.
	www.jahsonic.com /Queer.html (2635 words)

	Genders OnLine Journal - Presenting innovative theories in art, literature, history, music, TV and film.
		Queer Eye simply takes this concept to rarified levels, where the straight woman gets a five in one package to help “straighten out” her man, who will still be unthreateningly hers at the end of the process.
		Queer Eye predicates gay visibility on the condition of a participation in the consumer logic of late capitalism, constructing both gay and heterosexual masculinity as dependent upon consumer spending and the erasure of class differences as well as on the exploitative division of labor that makes possible the makeovers on the show.
		Feminist, anti-racist, and queer cultural critics and activists need to take careful note of this strategy, not only for its import for cultural studies scholarship, but also because we should be cautious of any strategy that on the surface benefits one marginalized group while further scapegoating others.
	www.genders.org /g42/g42_berila_choudhuri.html (7932 words)

	Queer Subcultures
		Once a gay man or lesbian picks up the courage to go to their first queer bar, there they will learn many possibilities for being queer, but they were already queer before entering its door, and they already carry with them some notion of the precedents and patterns of queer culture.
		But queer subcultures should be considered as examples of queer culture driven underground, retaining some of their original features while developing others to cope with changing moral climates.
		The interrelationship of the queer subcultures of different nationalities is something that needs pursuing in order adequately to account for growth and historical development in any specific queer subculture, because many changes probably come more from the intermingling of queer subcultures than from the interaction between queer subcultures and straight cultures.
	www.infopt.demon.co.uk /social27.htm (5247 words)

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		Queer uses of time and space develop in opposition to the institutions of family, heterosexuality, and reproduction, and queer subcultures develop as alternatives to kinship-based notions of community.
		Queer subcultures are related to old school subcultures like punk but they also carve out new territory for a consideration of the overlap of gender, generation, class, race, community, and sexuality in relation to minority cultural production.
		Queer lesbian subcultures have rarely been discussed in the existing literature and they offer today a new area of study for queer scholarship as well as exciting opportunities for collaborations between queer cultural producers and queer academics.
	www.barnard.columbia.edu /sfonline/ps/printjha.htm (2919 words)

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		For me, autobiographical queer life-narrative research is a critical engagement with the queer self that investigates the personal and difficult journey to be, become, belong, act, speak, and represent oneself as a queer person, citizen, and educator in diverse cultural and social spaces.
		Culture as community is socially formed, lived, and represented in sociocultural spaces like home places and workplaces, and through the attachments developed there.
		Culture as knowledge derives from formalized knowledge that is associated with the intellectual world and the culture of academe.
	www.oise.utoronto.ca /CASAE/cnf2001/grace.htm (3464 words)

	Blue & White Online - Queer Culture - November 2001
		He defines this as a set of tools that helps us analyze culture and the purpose of sexuality in culture from an anti-homophobic perspective that doesn't dichotomize the world into straight or gay.
		"Queer theory doesn't come out-of-subject with a set of expectations or prior assumptions, but with a set of attitudes that should be open to objects of analysis, whether it be a novel, poem or piece of music," he said.
		In theory, queer is supposed to be inclusive.
	www.unc.edu /bw/nov_01/qculture.html (1910 words)

	In Search of a New Subculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As cultural outsiders, we do have a different view of the fear and hate blighting the roots of our society, but outsiders are not in a favorable position to cut away the diseased roots or encourage healthy growth.
		Queer culture was not dramatically shaped by Paganism, and Pagan culture has not been particularly queer-oriented.
		Both Pagans and queers are more accepting of difference within their communities than is available in the larger culture, but there is a cultural dividing line where xenophobia enters the gay community and homophobia rears its head in the Pagan community.
	members.aol.com /HypatiaX/RBWlibrary/newsub.htm (1104 words)

	Women's Studies at Smith College Courses, Main Page
		Queer Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field whose goal is to analyze antinormative sexual identities, performances, discourses and representations in order ultimately to destabilize the notion of normative sexuality and gender.
		In queer studies, the interpretation, enactment, and destabilizing of sexual identities is linked to that of gender categories.
		In the queer studies concentration students are encouraged to consider the historical and theoretical foundations of queer studies as well as the potential consequences (epistemological and political) of a queer studies critique.
	www.smith.edu /wst/queerstudies.html (678 words)

	More Than Tolerance
		It is true that queer students at Harvard generally feel as physically safe walking through the Yard as anyone else; few queer students deal with voiced insults on a regular basis.
		Rather than forcing queer students to define themselves by what they are not, BGLTSA provides them the opportunity to live according to their individual consciences.
		This aspect is especially important in increasing visibility, which both helps students who identify themselves as queer to establish themselves in Harvard’s queer culture and forces the rest of Harvard’s student body to recognize that the queer community is an integral part of the university.
	www.digitas.harvard.edu /~perspy/old/issues/1997/nov/tolerance.html (1219 words)

	Queer as Straight Guys with Folk Eyes
		The show was "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Two years earlier, in December of 2000, Showtime produced what was to become one of the most controversial and popular television shows in the network's history: "Queer as Folk," inspired by the BBC original of the same name.
		The pretty- agreed-upon normative culture would be inside, the 'gay' culture would be outside, and there would be a lot that neither group would want to let in; S/M, fetish, inter-generational couples; those on the outside of inside AND the outside of outside, the queer in some instances, simply unnamed in others.
		In the pilot episode of "Queer as Folk" a Jeep belonging to one of the characters is graffitied and "FAGGOT" is written in pink spray paint on the side paneling.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /sci_cult/courses/knowbody/f04/web1/cphillips.html (2040 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Thinking Queer: Sexuality, Culture, and Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thinking Queer takes up the challenges of queer theorizing for education by interrogating the effects of representation through voice and visibility, the interplay of social and academic knowledges and ignorances, and the performative aspects of queer identities and practices.
		Engaging ethnography, philosophical policy, and social analysis, cultural and media studies, and theoretical stances from psychoanalysis to complexity theory, the essays in this volume challenge readers to move beyond the logic of identity politics in order to consider the limitations and possibilities of cultural and institutional policies and practices in K-12 and higher educational contexts.
		This volume offers analyses of queer subjects that frame possibilities for new forms of inquiry into queer politics and practices and suggests tactics for educational change.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0820445215 (278 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Culture of Queers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and contiunities with the gay culture which succeeded it.
		Opening with a discussion of the very concept of 'queers', he asks what it means to speak of a sexual grouping having a culture and addresses issues such as gay attitudes to women and the notion of camp.
		Offering a grounded historical approach to the cultural implication of queerness, The Culture of Queers both insists on the cultural consequences of the oppression of homosexual men and offers a celebration of queer resistance.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415223768 (778 words)

	Queer Culture Representation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This object not so much represent queer culture itself, but serves as a real and symbolic representation of the politics of queer culture.
		The feather boa itself is used often as part of drag queens’ costumes, applying the "flag-method" to create an obvious visibility for queer culture, publicizing to other homosexuals that they were not alone and that a community was forming.
		So we see the way in which the feather boa does not represent queer culture itself, but represents the politics of queer culture: the mainstream stereotypes that were imposed upon them and how these stereotypes were used to create visibility and a voice with which to dispell them.
	newmedia.cgu.edu /imagined/kahmad/karim.htm (508 words)

	The Quotable Queer - Gay Culture: Tuesday, February 01, 2005
		The clashing of West Coast culture with East Coast culture.
		It is the story of the cycle of life; may their history be a source of inspiration to us all.
		Gay culture is constantly evolving and in different stages of development across the world.
	www.thequotablequeer.com /archives/2005_02_01_index.php (734 words)

	A straight embrace of gay culture -- with a twist / The straight men who reach out to gays defy easy categorization
		Smith says his interest in gay culture is not some permutation of political correctness but the result of important friendships with gays and lesbians and his willingness to accept different ideas and experiences.
		Thomas and other "queer straights" say they understand why gays and lesbians might be suspicious of them, but they say the skepticism is off base.
		Smith, 41, who has a doctorate in cultural studies and education from Ohio State University, writes in his essay of "coming out" as a queer heterosexual - - a process that he says took several years.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/06/24/LV234482.DTL (1499 words)

	Culture Queer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Culture Queer plays @ 1am participating in the widespread OTR festival "jammin on" !
		Culture Queer joins Campfire Crush, Le Technopussies, and Fotos in a "blast from the past" Top Cats extravaganza.
		Culture Queer performs in the lobby of the CAC for their contemporary friday's series in conjunction with "Slide Show" opening.
	www.culturequeer.com (87 words)

	Contemporary Arts Center \| New Orleans: Visual Arts: What's Showing
		The Culture of Queer is supported by the John Burton Harter Charitable Trust.
		In conjunction with The Culture of Queer, Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center presents "White Fluffy Duckies," a film series celebrating the life and works of many of the major gay artists that have died over the 18 years since Zeitgeist was founded.
		David S. Rubin, CAC Curator of Visual Arts, discusses the artworks in The Culture of Queer: A Tribute to J.B. Harter, which is on view at the Contemporary Arts Center through September 18.
	www.cacno.org /visual_arts.html (609 words)

	Queer Resources Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Queer Resources Directory contains 25488 files about everything queer; the QRD is at http://www.qrd.org/, with mirrors all over the world.
		Queers and their Families, including parenting and marriage.
		Queer Culture, History and Origins: what makes us unique, where we've been and where we come from.
	www.qrd.org /qrd (146 words)

	Hothouse: Blogging for Lesbians » Blog Archive » You Mean “Dyke” is Offensive?
		Queer, homo, trans, dyke, lesbian, and bi culture, pop culture, and listings for New York City.
		So the Dykes on Bikes have recently had their trademark rejected for the second time, despite reams of testimonials about the reclaiming and recasting of the word by the lesbian community.
		This entry was posted on Thursday, July 14th, 2005 at 2:31 pm and is filed under Culture, Politics.
	hthse.com /wordpress/index.php?p=288 (341 words)

	Beatrice.com: High-Low Demarcation Hits Queer Culture
		It's just one in a series of books that collate (and, I imagine, add to) the information found about queer contributions to civilized culture you'll find on their encyclopedic website.
		Mind you, by "queer" this book pretty much means "gay," so all you lesbian pop culture mavens will have to go find your own book.
		Unfortunately, it's also got pretty much the most tasteless anecdote I've read all year; what starts out as a heartwarming tale about a group of guys who did an AIDS Ride in 2001 turns sour when Madonna decides to add a concert to her tour...
	www.beatrice.com /archives/000896.html (394 words)

	NEWS: GSC: Demerits not on ballot
		Acknowledging that not all members of the Wesleyan community and specifically the queer community support all chalkings, we believe that the diversity of chalkings demonstrates the diversity of opinion and politics within the queer community and its allies.
		Chalkers combat the expectation that queer students will be silent and invisible by utilizing chalking as a form of expression.
		Forced to endure the constant flaunting of heterosexuality, some chalkers choose to publicly display their queer sexuality as a means of "flipping the script" for a day.
	www.wesleyan.edu /argus/apr1701/w1.html (577 words)

	WERRC - Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The course aims to explore the history and contemporary status of lesbian and queer communities and culture, and to provide participants with information and skills which will enbale them to think critically, strategically and creatively about lesbian and queer experiences, issues and politics.
		The course is composed of four modules: a Foundation Course in Lesbian Studies and Queer Culture taken by all participants, and three options, to be chosen from a range available (see below).
		Lesbian Studies and Queer Culture is offered as a complete course leading to the Certificate in Women's Studies.
	www.ucd.ie /werrc/courses/courses_lq.html (458 words)

	Eleventh Avenue South: Queer Culture Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A good chunk of my close queer friends are lesbians, heteroflexible women (just learned that term last night!), or gender queer folks.
		Even more indicative of the lack of bars for queer women is the City Pages award for the Best of the Twin Cities Best Place to Meet Single Women (Lesbian): Lynx Games.
		The Saloon, generally thought of as somewhat hostile to queer women, began a weekly women's night on Wednesdays known as Sugar.
	www.eleventh-avenue-south.com /archives/cat_queer_culture.html (1836 words)

	Lesbian-gay film festival a passport to queer culture
		So it was at the festival that I loaded up on queer imagery, dreams, stories and documentaries, enough, I'd hope, to last the rest of the year.
		The shift has made the gay colleague acceptable and let a generation of young people see queers as an everyday part of the culture.
		Incidentally, the idea that the young of the world might see gay people as normal still unnerves those excitable types who feel that the presence of gays in the media suggests barbarians at the gate, coming for their children.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/06/13/WB143116.DTL (864 words)

	Difference and Identity: Queer Culture Reacts to Marginalization and Homophobia (Warsaw, Poland)
		Homophobia is commonplace; yet the attitude towards queerness in the public sphere can be read as a mark of the democratization of societies.
		The objective of this conference is to analyze the causes and manifestations of homophobia on the one hand and, on the other, to consider the antihomophobic strategies and queer forms of cultural expression that function on the margins of social consciousness and acceptance.
		This event is third in a series of queer and gender studies conferences that have been organized since 2000.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /announce/show.cgi?ID=130613 (328 words)

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