Gay and Lesbian Critisism

• "stereotypes of gays and lesbians such as the queen and the dyke reproduce norms and gendered heterosexuality"
• "the homosexual man or woman falls short of the heterosexual norm: that they can never be a 'real' man or woman"
• "the stereotypes of the queen as the effeminate man and the dyke as the mannish woman"
• "early gay and lesbian criticism was mostly directed at stereotyping"
• "dominant stereotypes of homosexuals- such as the sissy, the sad young man, the gay psychopath, the seductive androgyne, the unnatural woman, or the lesbian vampire"
• "for straight spectators, such stereotypes could confirm prejudice, while for gay an lesbian spectators they might encourage self-hatred"
• "Dyer argues that stereotypes have the function of ordering the world around us"
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