Archive for December, 2006



"Don't Shoot!" Hetero Masquerade on Project Runway

Heather Hendershot, Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center — December 12th, 2006

In Season One of Project Runway, we learn surprisingly little about characters' backgrounds. It is only in the last episode that we encounter the finalists on their home turf. Visiting Jay in Lehman, PA, Tim finds him enacting a full-on masquerade of redneck masculinity, pointing a gun, wearing a plaid hunting shirt, and sporting a curly wig in place of his usual stringy Jesus hair. "Don't shoot!" exclaims Tim, in high camp mode. Here, the show’s homonormativity finds its fullest expressio [...]
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Queer Friendly

Avi Santo, Old Dominion University — December 6th, 2006

As someone who has often rooted for Nip/Tuck's Sean and Christian to get it on, I felt very ambivalent about this dream sequence. Though Youtube fans proclaim the scene as "hot", I felt cheated. It's a dream sequence for Christ's sake! Why can't they just KISS?!? While clearly pushing boundaries and playing to fan desires in ways that SNG or other homo-erotically inflected texts never overtly would, this fantasy is both loaded with gay stereotypes (even if these are presented [...]
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