Branded Beautiful

Lia T. Bascomb
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This chapter investigates how white homonormative narratives perform tyrannous acts that distort understandings of queerness for people of color. As white queerness romanticizes and celebrates “coming out”—becoming the universal marker of liberation—these fascinations forge a space where other, discrete ways of being in the world appear anachronistic, backwards, or rare. McCune re-opens the case of “white men on the Down Low (DL),” if you will—to elucidate how the larger discourse of the queer triumphant, or queer progress, activates an erasure of all queers (white included) who do not fit the mold of the “out and proud” gay subject. This elision constructs a cultural amnesia around other ways of knowing sexuality outside of coming out—which enables a mis-remembering of a white queer past and present, devoid of discretion. Secondly, these constructions of a white queer past sanitize white queerness and enable a discourse that not only impacts how white queers perpetually privilege progress narratives, but potentially demonizes or distorts queers of color who perform often more illegible enactments of queerness. Bringing back the film Brokeback Mountain as a shape-shifting cultural text—globalizing an understanding of the foregone closet—the chapter forces an interracial non-romance between discretion in whiteface and blackface. Brokeback Mountain and other resonant texts perform a popular queer historiography, which misreads or under-reads the broader histories and social realities of queer people within and outside of the U.S.
品牌的美丽
本章探讨白人同质叙事是如何扭曲有色人种对酷儿的理解的暴虐行为。当白人酷儿浪漫化并庆祝“出柜”——成为解放的普遍标志——这些魅力形成了一个空间,在这个空间里,世界上其他离散的存在方式显得不合时宜、落后或罕见。如果你愿意的话,McCune重新打开了“底层白人”(DL)的案例,以阐明酷儿胜利或酷儿进步的大话语如何激活了对所有不符合“出柜和骄傲”同性恋主体模式的酷儿(包括白人)的抹除。这种省略构建了一种文化上的失忆,使人们对出柜之外的性行为有了其他认识方式,这使得人们对白人酷儿的过去和现在有了错误的记忆,缺乏判断力。其次,这些对白人酷儿过去的建构净化了白人酷儿,并使一种话语成为可能,这种话语不仅影响了白人酷儿对进步叙事的永久特权,而且潜在地妖魔化或扭曲了有色人种的酷儿,这些人往往表现出更难以辨认的酷儿行为。把电影《断背山》作为一种变形的文化文本,将对被抛弃的衣橱的理解全球化,这一章在白人和黑人的谨慎之间形成了一种跨种族的非浪漫。《断背山》和其他引起共鸣的作品表现了一种流行的酷儿历史编纂,它误读或低估了美国境内外酷儿群体的更广泛的历史和社会现实
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