The Last Closet

LGBTQ+ Studies and Social Class

Bibliographic Data

ID3663851
AuthorsMichael Borgstrom (San Diego State University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume67
Issue3
Pages367-383
Publication date2020-02-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2018.1530884
PMID30335589
OpenAlexW2896719177
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

This essay examines the intersection of queerness and social class as it impinges on the field of LGBTQ+ studies. Specifically, it considers some of the disciplinary aims of queer critique in relation to the challenges facing first-generation queer scholars; in so doing, it suggests how forms of difference operate in relation to the personal over time. As a discipline committed to intersectional frameworks, LGBTQ+ studies (and its ongoing evolution) might thus usefully foreground overlapping understandings of outsiderness: namely, how queerness might be experienced as a form of class, and how class might be experienced as a form of queerness

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