Priscilla Fights Back: The Politicization of Camp Subculture
@article{Padva2000PriscillaFB, title={Priscilla Fights Back: The Politicization of Camp Subculture}, author={Gilad Padva}, journal={Journal of Communication Inquiry}, year={2000}, volume={24}, pages={216 - 243} }
Camp, as queer creation and manifestation, objects to the stigmatization that marks the unnatural, extraordinary, perverse, sick, inefficient, dangerous, and freakish. As political counterculture, it is much more than a mode of aestheticism or worship of the artifice. By celebrating its extravagance, carnival, stylized eroticism, masquerade, and colorful kitsch and mimicry, camp provides a different perspective that provokes heteronormative gender roles and codes of visibility and behavior. It…
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