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Original Articles

The Politics of Love in Three Recent U.S. and U.K. Films of Young Gay Romance

A Symptomatic Reading of Beautiful Thing, Get Real and Edge of Seventeen

Pages 141-184 | Published online: 05 Oct 2008

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