
In preparation for a new undergraduate class on queer identity formations since the turn of the 20th century, I spent my weekends working through a rich and sometimes frustrating set of potential readings: gay novels of the too-brief period between gay liberation and the onslaught of AIDS. One of those books, Andrew Holleran’s 1978 gay classic, Dancer From the Dance, is a camp masterpiece that captures both the freedom and the self-loathing found in urban gay life in the 1970s — as well as the racial and ethnic prejudices (often couched as desires) of its white gay characters.
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