2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 5: Credo.

2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 4: Real People.

2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 3: Music.

2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 2: Queer Year.

2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 1: Arts and Culture.

Part 4: 2400 Years of Homosexuality in China.

The fourth part of series A Queer History that looks back to Early Greece and onward to now. Homosexuality in Imperial China.

“Homosexuality was considered a fact of life, and for the most part was not singled out as a vice that had to be punished or demonised.”

The Original Songs, and the Future of YouTube Drag.

In this 3-part series, A. Loudermilk writes about the drag queen YouTube videos that are as transgressive as they are outrageous. Part 3 looks at the drag queens singing original songs.

“The best of these videos tend to spoof the lowest common denominator through gross-out humor and absurdly extreme stereotypes. They nod, indirectly, at the reality of living in a commercial culture built on stereotyping.”

The Impact of the YouTube Parody.

In this 3-part series, A. Loudermilk writes about the drag queen YouTube videos that are as transgressive as they are outrageous. Part 2 looks at the impact of the YouTube drag parody video.

“The best of these videos tend to spoof the lowest common denominator through gross-out humor and absurdly extreme stereotypes. They nod, indirectly, at the reality of living in a commercial culture built on stereotyping.”

Divine Origins.

In this 3-part series, A. Loudermilk writes about the drag queen YouTube videos that are as transgressive as they are outrageous. The first part looks at how the origins of the drag queen video in the days before YouTube.

“The best of these videos tend to spoof the lowest common denominator through gross-out humor and absurdly extreme stereotypes. They nod, indirectly, at the reality of living in a commercial culture built on stereotyping.”

Part 3: The Roman Empire Outlaws Homosexuality

The third part of series A Queer History that looks back to Early Greece and onward to now. The Roman Empire outlaws homosexuality.

“The construction of Christianity under the Roman emperors was not about the religion. It was about power.”