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Categorically Famous - Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America (Paperback)
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Categorically Famous - Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America (Paperback)
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The first sustained study of the relations between literary
celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the
careers of three celebrity writers-James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and
Gore Vidal-in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement
of the 1960s. While none of these writers "came out" in our current
sense, all contributed, through their public images and their
writing, to a greater openness toward homosexuality that was an
important precondition of liberation. Their fame was crucial, for
instance, to the growing conception of homosexuals as an oppressed
minority rather than as individuals with a psychological problem.
Challenging scholarly orthodoxies, Guy Davidson urges us to rethink
the usual opposition to liberation and to gay and lesbian
visibility within queer studies as well as standard definitions of
celebrity. The conventional ban on openly discussing the
homosexuality of public figures meant that media reporting at the
time did not focus on his protagonists' private lives. At the same
time, the careers of these "semi-visible" gay celebrities should be
understood as a crucial halfway point between the era of the open
secret and the present-day post-liberation era in which queer
people, celebrities very much included, are enjoined to come out.
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