Screen-printed rather than stenciled, eh? Well, nevermind, now I won't go see the movie. Heh.
Your fic sounds really interesting. If I could be a history nudge, though? I strongly, strongly recommend that you look at Chauncey's Gay New York - at least the introduction - for his discussion of the use of the phrase "coming out" and the related term "the closet." What he says, and this totally fits with my own rather more limited research in Mexico City, is that lesbians and gay men in the 1920s and after did use the phrase "coming out" but only in the sense of coming out into the gay community - it seems to have been a play on the idea of a debutante's ball, where the deb "came out" into society and announced herself as available for marriage. The idea of coming out of the closet, of liberating oneself from heteronormativity, arose from the New Left of the 1960s and its concerns with authenticity.
Or I dunno, maybe I just want to read the scene where Bruce Banner is reading Chauncey kind of randomly and starts asking Steve about it - "so did you ever go slumming at the drag balls up in Harlem, huh?"
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Date: 2012-06-14 02:03 am (UTC)Your fic sounds really interesting. If I could be a history nudge, though? I strongly, strongly recommend that you look at Chauncey's Gay New York - at least the introduction - for his discussion of the use of the phrase "coming out" and the related term "the closet." What he says, and this totally fits with my own rather more limited research in Mexico City, is that lesbians and gay men in the 1920s and after did use the phrase "coming out" but only in the sense of coming out into the gay community - it seems to have been a play on the idea of a debutante's ball, where the deb "came out" into society and announced herself as available for marriage. The idea of coming out of the closet, of liberating oneself from heteronormativity, arose from the New Left of the 1960s and its concerns with authenticity.
Or I dunno, maybe I just want to read the scene where Bruce Banner is reading Chauncey kind of randomly and starts asking Steve about it - "so did you ever go slumming at the drag balls up in Harlem, huh?"