The Last Closet: LGBTQ+ Studies and Social Class |
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Authors: | Michael Borgstrom |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USAmborgstr@mail.sdsu.edu |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis essay examines the intersection of queerness and social class as it impinges on the field of LGBTQ+ studies. Specifically, it considers some of the disciplinary aims of queer critique in relation to the challenges facing first-generation queer scholars; in so doing, it suggests how forms of difference operate in relation to the personal over time. As a discipline committed to intersectional frameworks, LGBTQ+ studies (and its ongoing evolution) might thus usefully foreground overlapping understandings of outsiderness: namely, how queerness might be experienced as a form of class, and how class might be experienced as a form of queerness. |
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Keywords: | LGBTQ studies social class queer theory first-generation scholars privilege |
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