(For instance, Gabriel Kahane's "February House," at the Public last year, despite two lovely tunes, couldn't decide if it was a musicale about queerness, or a queer "With Six You Get Eggroll").
On pain of accepting brute facts, it would appear that any attempt to do away with queer sums by restricting composition would have to do away with too much else besides the queer entities; for queerness comes in degrees whereas parthood and existence cannot be a matter of degree (though we shall return to this issue in Section 5).
Carli Velocci, a bisexual Steven Universe fan who has written about the show's queerness, says, "The show's queer fanbase is upset about this because, as a community that struggles with representation, it feels like they're being ignored and erased".
What often gets overlooked from today's fuzzy vantage point is that the New Queer Cinema was a revolution of form as much as of content: the queerness of a film like "Poison" extends beyond story to structure.
After he appeared in a series of pictures with his scantily clad wife, wearing painted nails and a studded wrist-band (Becks that is, not Posh), El Mundo, a Spanish newspaper, wondered how this strand of British "queerness" would play with Madrid's famously macho fans.It will be interesting, to say the least.
The liberation of queerness and gayness is to go and live your life how you can to be happy.
Appealing to the intrinsic "queerness" of moral properties as contrasted with natural ones, some theorists, notably the Australian-born philosopher J.L. Mackie, have denied their existence altogether, propounding an error theory of moral discourse.
It's as if Upton and Andrew, vibing on the fact that the play was written by a gay man who had expressed a wish that the parts be played by men, the better to point out the piece's absurdist point of view, equated Genet's queerness with hating women.
In both places there was his intractable queerness.
It takes an intelligent actor to cut through McNally's clever and essentially sentimental view of the world and get to the heart of his various stories, which usually revolve around a secret — sickness, sadism, queerness, or all of the above.
And, as I found my ideas about the musical giving way to its splendid reality, I thought, too, about how Blitzstein talked about his queerness in Second World War-era America, when cruising could get you arrested.
