Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of queer studies (formerly often known as gay and lesbian...
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or gender identities and politics. Academic disciplines such as queer theory and queer studies share a general opposition to binarism, normativity, and...
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Queer heterosexuality is the heterosexual practice or identity that is also controversially called queer. "Queer heterosexuality" is argued to consist...
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themes of new queer cinema.: 192 The identification of queer cinema probably emerged in the mid-1980s through the influence of queer theory, which aims...
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heterosexuality or identity binaries. Coming out of queer theory in the late 1980s through the 1990s, queering is a method that can be applied to literature...
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asexual, aromantic, queer, questioning, and intersex people and cultures. Originally centered on LGBT history and literary theory, the field has expanded...
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Neuroqueer theory is a framework that intersects the fields of neurodiversity and queer theory. It examines the ways society constructs and defines normalcy...
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discussion of media portrayal of LGBT people and academic research involving queer theory or gender studies. In 1930, the Hays Code was established, which regulated...
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Queer ecology (or queer ecologies) is an endeavor to understand nature, biology, and sexuality in the light of queer theory, rejecting the presumptions...
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book providing a historical overview of queer theory in communication studies, and they published a history of queer communication studies and a vision for...
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Stag film (section Queer theory)
who looks at the female's body within the unfolding narrative. Williams' theory on the discourse of the stag film is that "it oscillates between the impossible...
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Quare theory was created by E. Patrick Johnson in 2001. Quare theory was created to promote the voices of queer people of color. Quare theory is similar...
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critique of homonormativity, interjecting queer political analysis into critical theory. The praxis for Queer of Color critique came long before the establishment...
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Feminist sociology (redirect from Feminism and queer theory)
participated in creating change and respecting feminist movements. Modern queer theory attempts to unmake the social and contextual elements reinforcing heteronormativity...
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Non-binary (redirect from Gender queer)
or hormone replacement therapy. The term "genderqueer" first appeared in queer zines of the 1980s, preceding the more widely used "non-binary." It gained...
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Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories is a collection of essays on queer theory and political theory from a queer perspective. It was edited...
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LGBTQ people (redirect from Lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer)
LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (abbreviated LGBTQ). The group is generally conceived as...
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Queer Tango (or Tango Queer) is to dance Argentine tango without regard to the traditional heteronormative roles of the dancers, and often to exchange...
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The Queer Art of Failure is a 2011 book of queer theory by Jack Halberstam. In it, Halberstam argues that failure can be a productive way of critiquing...
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Romeo and Juliet (section Queer theory)
Goldberg examined the sexuality of Mercutio and Romeo utilising queer theory in Queering the Renaissance (1994), comparing their friendship with sexual...
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Queer Nation is an LGBTQ activist organization founded in March 1990 in New York City, by HIV/AIDS activists from ACT UP. The four founders were outraged...
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Gay liberation (redirect from Queer liberation)
Steven Seidman interprets these intellectual productions as precursors to queer theory. Decriminalization of homosexuality Gay Lib v. University of Missouri...
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José Esteban Muñoz (category Queer theorists)
performance studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory. His first book, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance...
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Bruno Perreau (section Queer theory in France)
law saw queer theory as a threat to French family. Perreau questions the return of French Theory to France from the standpoint of queer theory, thereby...
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LGBTQ Latino literature (section Latino Queer theory)
Moraga, Emma Pérez, Queer theory was born as an academic study in the early 1990s used to address the growing representation of queer identities, where...
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LGBTQ equality or inclusion, including LGBTQ marketing. In April 2010, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT) in the Bay Area, used the phrase pinkwashing...
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Is the Rectum a Grave? (category Queer theory)
scholar Leo Bersani. It is an early text in queer theory (although Bersani never considered himself a queer theorist), and provides a non-utopian view...
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Zero Patience (section Queer theory)
attention in the context of both film theory and queer theory, and is considered part of the informal New Queer Cinema movement. Victorian adventurer...
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outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to critical theory: Critical theory – the examination and critique of society and culture, drawing...
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