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Author Warner, Sara, author.

Title Acts of Gaiety : LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure / Sara Warner.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages).
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Dictionary
Series Triangulations : lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance
Triangulations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and 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.
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."
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Gay people and the performing arts.
Homosexuality and theater.
Homosexuality and theater.
Gay theater -- United States.
Gay theater.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Gay theater.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Other Form: Print version: 9780472118533 0472118536 (DLC) 2012025917
ISBN 9780472028757 (electronic book)
0472028758 (electronic book)
9780472118533 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0472118536