This paper sets out to explore the construction of a market based on identity. The interest lies
upon the emergence and present understanding of the gay male market. To achieve this, an …

In this paper I aim to contribute to work addressing the relationship between dissident
sexuality and gay political economy by providing a reconfigured Marxist exploration into the …

The paper approaches the issue of the (de) construction of gay/straight symbolic
boundaries. The interpretative model discussed acknowledges two main theoretical calls:(i) …

The 1990s saw a dramatic rise in the production, distribution, and consumption of
commodities aimed at a gay and lesbian market. In the same decade, gay and lesbian …

Between Men~ Between Women is a forum for current lesbian and gay scholarship in the
humanities and social sciences. The series includes both books that rest within specific …

This article explores the creation of a lesbian and gay collective identity in twentieth century
United States. Building on theoretical work on the social construction of collective identity …

Gay culture in [its] most visible mode is anything but external to advanced capitalism and to
precisely those features of advanced capitalism that many on the left are most eager to …

Marketplace phenomena, such as gay window advertising, reflect the extent to which the
commercialization of same-sex desire permits marginalized or stigmatized forms of sexual …

GAY CULTURE MEANS something more specific than it pretends: a discursive system
developed out of a metropolitan, white, middle-class and male gay community. Gay culture …

This study outlines the rise of gay consumer culture from 1945 to 1969—an examination of
the production, sale, and consumption of physique magazines, paperback novels, greeting …