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Author Warner, Sara, author

Title Acts of Gaiety : LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure / Sara Warner
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages)
Series Triangulations : lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance
Triangulations.
Contents "Contents"; "Preface"; "Acknowledgments"; "Introduction"; "1. "Scummy" Acts: Valerie Solanas's Theater of the Ludicrous"; "2. Guerrilla Acts: Marriage Protests, 1969 and 2009"; "3. Expatriate Acts: Jill Johnston's Joker Citizenship"; "4. Terrorist Acts: The Maladapted Hothead Paisan, a Lesbian Comedy of Terrors"; "5. Unnatural Acts: The Tragic Consequences of Homoliberalism in the Five Lesbian Brothers' Oedipus at Palm Springs "; "Afterword"; "Notes"; "Bibliography"; "Index."
Summary "The book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s-70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety that lay at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era and uncovering original documents long thought to be lost. Juxtaposing historical figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists (including Hothead Paisan, Bitch & Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers), Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging."--Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Gay people and the performing arts
Homosexuality and theater.
Gay theater -- United States
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Gay theater
Gays and the performing arts
Homosexuality and theater
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780472028757
0472028758