Seeking myself in the queer funhouse

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James Darsey (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1985) is Professor in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, U.S. Email: [email protected]

Walters also has difficulty with La Cage aux Folles. Where Gross sees Renato and Albin as deviance, which is trumped by the normal son, Walters sees the gay couple as “nonthreatening homebodies at heart, family gals who desire nothing less (or more) than the reconstitution of heterosexual bliss” (p. 140). The real problem La Cage faces with queer critics, I submit, lies in our own homophobia. Pressing for a respect for diversity, on the one hand, we are still secretly horrified by the figure of the sissy.

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James Darsey

James Darsey (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1985) is Professor in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, U.S. Email: [email protected]