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Straight eye for the gay guy: composing queerness.

Jonathan Alexander¹

¹Department of English, University of California, Irvine, 435 HIB, Irvine, CA 95697, USA. jfalexan@uci.edu

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|June 29, 2010

Summary

Straight men

Area of Science:

Queer theory
Cultural studies
Media studies

Background:

Gay male subjectivity construction theorized by Didier Eribon.
Analysis of straight men's representations of male homosexuality.
Exploration of queer experience beyond stereotypes.

Purpose of the Study:

Examine straight men's attempts to represent male homosexuality.
Investigate the value and possibility of straight men imagining queerness.
Analyze the pedagogical, personal, and political implications of such representations.

Main Methods:

Textual analysis of Norman Mailer's "The Homosexual Villain."
Analysis of the Bravo reality series Boy Meets Boy.
Examination of Michael Griffith's short story "Hooper Gets a Perm."

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Main Results:

Straight representations of queerness can move beyond stereotypes.
Straight men's imagining of queerness is possible and desirable.
These representations reveal how queerness circulates in culture.

Conclusions:

Straight imagining of queerness offers potential for mutual understanding.
Analyzing these representations illuminates cultural discussions of queerness.
Understanding straight imaginings of queerness is crucial for queer studies.