ABSTRACT
SINCE A COCKY k. d. lang reveled in Cindy Crawford's feminine attentions on the cover of Vanity Fair in the summer of 1993, other icons of “lesbian chic” have been showing off their buzzcuts in androgynous ads, while gay men flex their pecs in mainstream magazines and, more figuratively, in the upper echelons of the business world. Newsweek, having declared cuddly, cohabitating “Lesbians” all the rage the previous year, observed a sudden bisexual moment sweeping the nation in 1995. Fashionably late, following centuries of invisibility punctuated by hostile caricatures, a conspicuous kind of gay liberation announced its own important arrival in the 1990s.
