As an act of vengeance, I want to take what could be mine from Hollywood, put myself in the picture as it were… Wish-fulfillment, you may say, as I wrest the homo-subtext from its cosy heterocomplacent form and make it the major discourse. Maybe so, but then reading against the grain began as a wish for inclusion by marginalized, under- represented people and ended up as a strategy essential for our survival.
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Smyth, C. (1995). “The Transgressive Sexual Subject.” In P. Burston & C. Richardson (Eds.), A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture (pp. 123-143). London: Routledge.
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