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Hentzi, Gary. “Paris Is Burning.” Film Quarterly 45.2 (1991): 35-37. Web. 18 November 2013.
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What could be more paradoxical than a subculture that celebrates the fanatically precise imitation of the mainstream?
Now the ultimate measure of success is to be able to walk out of a ball and into the crowd on the street without being identified and bashed.
This is not a gay equivilant of passing, but rather a way of refining ones difference from the mainstream to the point where the signs of that difference have been totally effaced and it assume a kind of real existence.
The irony is that the very real experience of difference should help to create a disguise so immaculate that nothing remains but the in-joke of one’s private knowledge.
Now the ultimate measure of success is to be able to walk out of a ball and into the crowd on the street without being identified and bashed.
This is not a gay equivilant of passing, but rather a way of refining ones difference from the mainstream to the point where the signs of that difference have been totally effaced and it assume a kind of real existence.
The irony is that the very real experience of difference should help to create a disguise so immaculate that nothing remains but the in-joke of one’s private knowledge.
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Hentzi, Gary. “Paris Is Burning.” Film Quarterly 45.2 (1991): 35-37. Web. 18 November 2013.
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