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This book examines gendered language use in six gay male
subcultures: drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys,
barebackers, and leathermen. Within each subculture, unique
patterns of language use challenge normative assumptions about
gender and sexual identity. Rusty Barrett's analyses of these
subcultures emphasize the ways in which gay male constructions of
gender are intimately linked to other forms of social difference.
In From Drag Queens to Leathermen, Barrett presents an extension of
his earlier work among African American drag queens in the 1990s,
emphasizing the intersections of race and class in the construction
of gender. An analysis of sacred music among radical faeries
considers the ways in which expressions of gender are embedded in a
broader neo-pagan religious identity. The formation of bear as an
identity category (for heavyset and hairy men) in the late 1980s
involves the appropriation of linguistic stereotypes of rural
Southern masculinity. Among regular attendees of circuit parties,
language serves to differentiate gay and straight forms of
masculinity. In the early 2000s, barebackers (gay men who eschew
condoms) used language to position themselves as rational risk
takers with an innate desire for semen. For participants in the
International Mr. Leather contest, a disciplined, militaristic
masculinity links expressions of patriotism with BDSM sexual
practice. In all of these groups, the construction of gendered
identity involves combining linguistic forms that would usually not
co-occur. These unexpected combinations serve as the foundation for
the emergence of unique subcultural expressions of gay male
identity, explicated at length in this book.
Controversial and accessible, this book is popular with lecturers
and students alike as it enthuses and inspires engagement with
pertinent and contemporary language discrimination issues. Features
discussion questions and exercises which supports learning and
engagement of students with the material covered. Supported with a
companion website that features extra exercises, audio files and
YouTube clips which provides an interactive experience for students
and brings the material in the book alive.
Controversial and accessible, this book is popular with lecturers
and students alike as it enthuses and inspires engagement with
pertinent and contemporary language discrimination issues. Features
discussion questions and exercises which supports learning and
engagement of students with the material covered. Supported with a
companion website that features extra exercises, audio files and
YouTube clips which provides an interactive experience for students
and brings the material in the book alive.
This book examines gendered language use in six gay male
subcultures: drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys,
barebackers, and leathermen. Within each subculture, unique
patterns of language use challenge normative assumptions about
gender and sexual identity. Rusty Barrett's analyses of these
subcultures emphasize the ways in which gay male constructions of
gender are intimately linked to other forms of social difference.
In From Drag Queens to Leathermen, Barrett presents an extension of
his earlier work among African American drag queens in the 1990s,
emphasizing the intersections of race and class in the construction
of gender. An analysis of sacred music among radical faeries
considers the ways in which expressions of gender are embedded in a
broader neo-pagan religious identity. The formation of bear as an
identity category (for heavyset and hairy men) in the late 1980s
involves the appropriation of linguistic stereotypes of rural
Southern masculinity. Among regular attendees of circuit parties,
language serves to differentiate gay and straight forms of
masculinity. In the early 2000s, barebackers (gay men who eschew
condoms) used language to position themselves as rational risk
takers with an innate desire for semen. For participants in the
International Mr. Leather contest, a disciplined, militaristic
masculinity links expressions of patriotism with BDSM sexual
practice. In all of these groups, the construction of gendered
identity involves combining linguistic forms that would usually not
co-occur. These unexpected combinations serve as the foundation for
the emergence of unique subcultural expressions of gay male
identity, explicated at length in this book.
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