The Queer Sixties

by Smith, Patricia Juliana

• ISBN13: 9780415921688
• ISBN10: 0415921686
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

As the 1960s recede further into our collective memory, curiosity and nostalgia for this groovy, flower-powered decade persists. Many books have charted the social history of this tumultuous time, but none have provided queer readings of the icons and iconoclasts that peopled its stage. The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of looking at the queer cultural and subcultural expression of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. A magical mystery tour, this collection reveals the queer in the Beatles and Jim Morrison, unearths the cultural power of lesbian and gay pulp fiction, and reads the queer in Myra Breckinridge, In Cold Blood, and Another Country. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the '60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Patricia Juliana Smith
Part I The Iconographic Subcultural Text: Queer Pulp Fictions	1	(42)
Pulp Politics: Strategies of Vision in Pro-Lesbian Pulp Novels, 1955--1965	1	(25)
Yvonne Keller
The Cultural Work of Sixties Gay Pulp Fiction	26	(17)
David Bergman
Part II Ultimate Icon, Ultimate Iconoclast: Andy Warhol and Valerie Solanas	43	(44)
New York School's ``Out'': Andy Warhol Presents Dumb and Dumber	43	(19)
Kelly Cresap
The ``Sweet Assassin'' and the Performative Politics of SCUM Manifesto	62	(25)
Laura Winkiel
Part III Notes from Abroad: Queer Icons of Swinging London	87	(58)
A Perfectly Developed Playwright: Joe Orton and Homosexual Reform	87	(18)
Francesca Coppa
``You Don't Have to Say You Love Me'': The Camp Masquerades of Dusty Springfield	105	(22)
Patricia Juliana Smith
``Give Us a Kiss'': Queer Codes, Male Partnering, and the Beatles	127	(18)
Ann Shillinglaw
Part IV California Dreaming: Los Angeles and Its Queer Denizens	145	(42)
``I am with You, Little Minority Sister'': Isherwood's Queer Sixties	145	(19)
Joseph Bristow
L.A. Women: Jim Morrison with John Rechy	164	(23)
Ricardo L. Ortiz
Part V Icons and Iconoclasts in the Mainstream	187	(84)
``(W)right in the Faultlines'': The Problematic of Identity in William Wyler's The Children's Hour	187	(14)
Jennifer A. Rich
Liberalism, Libido, Liberation: Baldwin's Another Country	201	(22)
William A. Cohen
The Queer Frontier	223	(14)
Blake Allmendinger
Producing Identity: From The Boys in the Band to Gay Liberation	237	(18)
William Scroggie
Myra Breckinridge and the Pathology of Heterosexuality	255	(16)
Douglas Eisner
Contributors	271