sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies
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This paper examines the development and use of language in minority communities within the queer community from the beginning of the 20th century through today. The pre-Stonewall era is explored through two literary works, Quentin Crisp’s The Naked Civil Servant (1997/1968) and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1990/1928), and the post- Stonewall era looks at two 21st century groups, the undocuqueer movement and the group of queer people who use Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), otherwise known as Truvada Whores. Drawing on analysis of the modern groups found in Hinda Seif’s Coming out of the Shadows and undocuqueer and Tim Dean’s Mediated Intimacies, I attempt to explain both the ways that language are used in each era as well as the reason for the differences between the two eras.
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English, Brooke
(2023)
"Shame and the Struggle of Sexual Identity,"
sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies: Vol. 10, Article 2.
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https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/sprinkle/vol10/iss1/2
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