Queering the Slayer-Text: Reading Possibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Rebecca Beirne

Until the mid-1990s, the image of the polluted homosexual dominated the screen. Then there was a striking change: the rise of the “normal gay”. – Steven Seidman, Beyond the Closet[1] Employing the subversive power of the unnatural to unseat the Platonic world view, the queer, unlike the rather polite categories of gay and lesbian, revels … Continue reading Queering the Slayer-Text: Reading Possibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Rebecca Beirne