Queer Sixties

Patricia Juliana Smith is Assistant Professor of English at UCLA.

"This eye-opening work of cultural history is recommended for larger public libraries and academic collections with gay studies or art specializations." -- Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., OR, Library Journal June 15, 1999"Smith's volum examines the iconography of queer sexuality in popular culture during the deacde preceding Stonewall. Fourteen essays arrange in five subsections appraoch this topic through subjects ranging from pulp fiction and pop music to theater and film. Smith (UCLA) provises an introcution, and each of the essays includes substantial notes." -Choice.""Smith collects a broad sampling of literary, film, and music criticism fora reading of the culture of the 1960s through queer-colored glasses. This eye-opening work of cultural history is recommended for larger public libraries and academic collections with gay studies or art specializations." -- Library Journal

• I: The Iconographic Subcultural Text; 1: Pulp Politics; 2: The Cultural Work of Sixties Gay Pulp Fiction; II: Ultimate Icon, Ultimate Iconoclast; 3: New York School's “Out”; 4: The “Sweet Assassin” and the Performative Politics of Scum Manifesto; III: Notes from Abroad; 5: A Perfectly Developed Playwright; 6: “You Don't have to Say you Love me”; 7: “Give Us a Kiss”; IV: California Dreaming; 8: “I am with you, Little Minority Sister”; 9: L.A. Women; V: Icons and Iconoclasts in the Mainstream; 10: “(W)Right in the Faultlines”; 11: Liberalism, Libido, Liberation; 12: The Queer Frontier; 13: Producing Identity; 14: Myra Breckinridge and the Pathology of Heterosexuality