It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) - Softcover

Simpson, Mark

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9781560239505: It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)

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ISBN 10: 1560239506 ISBN 13: 9781560239505

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

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In this hilariously perverse collection of essays, celebrated British writer and satirists Mark Simpson takes a warped look at a fin de siecle world of pop culture where nothing is as straight -- or as gay -- as it seems. You'll revel in Simpson's wild adventures and shocking discoveries. Along the way, Simpson interviews Oscar Wilde and discovers that he's perplexed by all those rumors about his private life and would like to set the record straight; nearly has a fight with Jimmy Somerville (whom he describes as a lesbian trapped in a gay man's body); talks with London Suede about posing sodomites and why straights do camp so much better than dreary gays these days; outs Tom Cruise; discusses the cultural significance of foreskins with some U.S. Marines in Tijuana; and watches a groom being buggered by lesbian strippers at his stag night party.

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PUBLISHED REVIEWS
An hilariously perverse look at pop culture where nothing is as straight - or gay - as it seems

'MARK SIMPSON IS ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST WRITERS AROUND, AS THIS COLLECTION AMPLY PROVES' -Time Out, London

'WITH WICKED, WACKY HUMOUR, THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING EVER WRITTEN ON POPULAR CULTURE AND SEXUALITY.' - Gay Times

‘THESE UNFAILINGLY SHARP AND AMUSING ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS TAKE THE PISS OUT OF BRITAIN AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY REVEAL ITS FABULOUS QUEERNESS’ - Out

‘ERUDITE, INCISIVE, SASSY... FRESH, HILARIOUS....’ - Publishers Weekly

'BRILLIANT... SERIOUSLY FUNNY.’ - Scotland On Sunday

'YOU’D HAVE TO BE A CHRONIC DEPRESSIVE NOT TO LAUGH' - New Statesman & Society

'PROVOCATIVE, IRREVERANT... A VALUABLE AND ENTERTAINING READ FOR THOSE OF ANY PERSUASIOIN SEEKING FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON THE ERA IN WHICH WE LIVE' - The Hot Press, Dublin

‘PERCEPTIVE AND FUNNY’ - The Scotsman

‘THE LITERARY EQUIVALENT OF A VERY DRY MARTINI IMBIBED AT HIGH ALTITUDE. GIDDY, GINNY CYNICISM AT ITS BEST." - Glenn Belverio, Glue

‘MAY BRING A TEAR TO YOUR EYE’ - Irish Gay Community News

‘MARK SIMPSON CASTS A COOL EYE ON THE PARADOXES OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE 90S. THIS COLLECTION SHOWS HIM AS HIS SCATHING AND IRREPRESSIBLE BEST; A QUEER CRITIC WITH A FIERCE ANALYTIC INTELLIGENCE, A ZIPPY AND INCISIVE WAY WITH WORDS, AND AN INEXHAUSTIBLE SENSE OF ADVENTURE.’

- David Halperin, '100 Years of Homosexuality', 'Saint Foucault'

About the Author:

Mark Simpson is the author of Male Impersonators. He is a critic and journalist.

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