Queering Queer Eye : The Stability of Gay Identity Confronts the Liminality of Trans Embodiment
2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 75; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/10570314.2011.553876
ISSN1745-1027
Autores Tópico(s)Media, Gender, and Advertising
ResumoAn episode of the series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy featuring a bisexual transsexual man brought an embodied vulnerable queerness to a series that had been premised on essentialist binary conceptions of sex, gender, and sexuality. The introduction of a makeover subject whose gender was not consonant with his birth sex forced the series to educate its viewers on subject matter that is culturally misunderstood, and to confront a liminal social identity that was not seamlessly accommodated within the standard Queer Eye format. The unique content of this episode serves to illustrate the educational potential of liminality.
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