Queer Style

Adam Geczy is an artist and writer who teaches at the University of Sydney, Australia.Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion at Massey University New Zealand. She holds an honorary Professorial position at the University of Sydney and is Honorary fellow of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Queer Style has established itself as the ultimate reader for understanding the LGBTQIA community: there is no better text! While not forgetting historical context, it allows us to understand how fashion has played a key role for all of us - regardless of ethnicity, race and age.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Meaning of Style Between Classic and QueerWinckelmann and the Suppressed Homoerotism in Modernist styleA Selective History of Non-queer, Standard, Straight and Classic dressing2.. Lesbian Style: From Mannish Women to Lipstick DykesMannish Lesbians and Salon DandiesLesbian Bar Culture of the Forties and FiftiesFeminist Androgyny and Anti StyleCross Dressing and Androgynous StyleDesigner Dykes and Lesbian ChicLesbian Visibility in the Twentieth Century3. Designer Dykes and Lesbian Visibility The L Word and Generation QLesbian Chic The Pleasures of Looking. Lesbians in film and media Hip Hop Lesbian Style4. Early Modern Gay Men’s StylesMacaroni’s and FopsDandies and Aesthetes. The Early Days of Queer StyleWilde, Posing, and the ‘Birth’ of HomosexualityParis Dandies, Aesthetes and Decadents5. Modern and Contemporary Gay Men’s Styles The Years Pending World War IIArtistic Bent. Warhol, Glam and PopGay Activism and Gay prideContemporary Queer: Hard to Say6. Kiss of the Whip. Bondage, Discipline and Sado-Masochism, or BDSM StyleMilitary Uniforms and the GestapoClips, Clamps Leather, and AccessoriesThe Mainstreaming of BDSM7. Drag Kings and QueensDames and QueensDrag and Artistic PracticeDrag as Politics Drag BallsKinging and Club CultureRuPaul Supermodel8. Trans* and Fluid StyleBy Way of a GeneologyAgainst CategorizationTransgender CelebrityFluid Fashion and Style9. Crossing Genders, Crossing CulturesJapanese Dandy StyleAlbanian Sworn VirginsThe Hijra: An Alternative Gender Role in IndiaFa’fafine and Polynesian Gender CrossingTwo Spirit First NationKathoey and Tom Boys of ThailandConclusion: Against JustificationBibliographyIndex