ABSTRACT

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 the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary.

part I|41 pages

The Iconographic Subcultural Text

chapter 1|25 pages

Pulp Politics

Strategies of Vision in Pro-Lesbian Pulp Novels, 1955–1965

part II|43 pages

Ultimate Icon, Ultimate Iconoclast

chapter 3|19 pages

New York School's “Out”

Andy Warhol Presents Dumb and Dumber

part III|57 pages

Notes from Abroad

chapter 5|18 pages

A Perfectly Developed Playwright

Joe Orton and Homosexual Reform

chapter 6|22 pages

“You Don't have to Say you Love me”

The Camp Masquerades of Dusty Springfield

chapter 7|17 pages

“Give Us a Kiss”

Queer Codes, Male Partnering, and the Beatles

part IV|42 pages

California Dreaming

chapter 8|19 pages

“I am with you, Little Minority Sister”

Isherwood‘s Queer Sixties

chapter 9|23 pages

L.A. Women

Jim Morrison with John Rechy

part V|84 pages

Icons and Iconoclasts in the Mainstream

chapter 10|14 pages

“(W)Right in the Faultlines”

The Problematic of Identity in William Wyler's The Children's Hour

chapter 11|22 pages

Liberalism, Libido, Liberation

Baldwin's Another Country

chapter 12|14 pages

The Queer Frontier

chapter 13|18 pages

Producing Identity

From The Boys in the Band To Gay Liberation