Introducing lesbian, gay and bisexual appearance psychology

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Acknowledgements

The guest editor thanks Helen Bowes-Catton, Sonja Ellis, Hannah Frith, Maria Gurevich, David Hutson, Laura Kelly, Jon Lasser, Heidi Levitt, Damien Riggs, Sarah Riley, Suzanna Rose and Esther Rothblum, who reviewed the papers in this Special Feature. All of the papers are based on presentations given at the Appearance Matters 4 Conference organised by the Centre for Appearance Research in the Department of Psychology at UWE.

Notes

1. A number of sexuality scholars have noted a distinction in anti- and pro-gay rhetoric between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ gays; the ‘good homosexual/dangerous queer’ binary (Smith, 1994). The good gay conforms to the rules of compulsory heterosexuality; they ‘know their place’. Dangerous queers are those who ‘flaunt’ or are ‘militant’ or ‘missionary’ about their identity’ (Millbank, 1992, p. 25).