Publications
In Print
“Mainstream Fiction, Gay Reviewers, and Gay Male Cultural Politics in the 1970s,” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 16, no. 3 (2010): 389-427. Read online (PDF).* Abstract:
An analysis of gay male reviewers’ responses to major commercial publishers’ expanded offerings of fiction by and about gay people during the 1970s reveals how reviewers constructed a machinery of gay-identified criticism, negotiated new definitions of gay identity, and forged a community of gay intellectuals and authors intent on using their own mainstream success to make evident to all the creativity and value of contemporary gay life. By decade’s end, this gay literary elite had developed ideas about gay cultural politics and the proper relationship between activism and commercial cultural production that differed distinctly from those of gay political organizations and other gay activists. These developments sketch a richer and more complicated story of the evolution of gay identity and gay politics—particularly the politics of visibility—after Stonewall.
Review of Heather Murray, Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (forthcoming)
“Women’s Cable and Programming,” in The Encyclopedia of Women and Popular Culture, ed. Gina Misiroglu (New York: Facts on File, forthcoming)
Online
Here
Between May 2010 and February 2011, I used this website to blog semi-regularly about my current research, contemporary politics and culture, LGBT issues, and other topics related to my academic interests. Here are some highlights (or click for the full archive):
- Some reflections on following the AHA on Twitter (January 10, 2011)
- The color of Scouting during World War II (September 1, 2010)
- When country music, regional resentment, and gender politics collide (August 22, 2010)
- Tough questions (June 9, 2010)
- ‘Colorful administrations’ (May 6, 2010)
Elsewhere
- “Boy Scouts in America: Or, Scrutiny in the Archive,” guest post at The Lazy Scholar (September 1, 2010)
- “Divided States #3: Connecticut Connections,” guest post at The Lazy Scholar (July 28, 2010)
* This article is publicly archived here according to the terms of the Duke University Press Journals publication agreement.
