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And yet […] there is a queer nostalgia for difference and alterity, as epitomised by ‘old school’, pre-Stonewall campness: that is, a nostalgia for an era before the mainstreaming of gay culture. This nostalgia is a crucial component of the queer use of camp. There is, it would seem, a queer desire for a time when being gay /lesbian was still dangerous, furtive, criminal. Clare Whatling desribes this yearning for the ‘good old bad old days’ as a ‘nostalgia for abjection, a nostalgia that operates as an antithesis to what often seems like the Laura-Ashleyisation of contemporary lesbian culture’.
[K] From: Davis, Glyn. “Camp and Queer and the New Queer Director: Case Study - Gregg Araki.” New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader. Ed. Michele Aaron. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2004.
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I’m glad that this POV acknowledges, that queer nostalgia can be about something other than naive, inexperienced...
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