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Goldenrod Distribution and the Queer Failure of Women’s Music

Goldenrod Distribution and the Queer Failure of Women’s Music lA uro N Ke Hrer Goldenrod Distribution and the Queer Failure of Women’s m usic In an opinion piece penned for the online publication Slate in September 2014 entitled “Gay Culture Is Dying. Good r iddance!,” Vanessa Viti- ello u rquhart asks hopefully, Is gay culture dead? She argues for an assimilationist approach in which lb GTQ-identified people “integrate fully into the [heterosexual] communities that give birth to us.” She writes, “Those who suggest that we, as gays, will always need places of refuge show a failure of imagination at how bright our future can be. They assume that there must always be some stigma, some feeling of difference, or separateness, or loneliness, remaining after the work of the lb GTQ movement is accomplished.” In a historical moment in which same- sex marriage continues to gain footholds at both national and state levels and lb GTQ characters are becoming a regular aspect of American film and television, it is easy to understand u rquhart’s optimistic view. In a rejoinder, however, June Thomas resists u rquhart’s assimilationist impulse, arguing instead that l auron Kehrer is a PhD candidate in musicology at the e astman School of m usic, u niversity http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

Goldenrod Distribution and the Queer Failure of Women’s Music

Kehrer, Lauron
American Music , Volume 34 (2) – Sep 11, 2016
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University of Illinois Press
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lA uro N Ke Hrer Goldenrod Distribution and the Queer Failure of Women’s m usic In an opinion piece penned for the online publication Slate in September 2014 entitled “Gay Culture Is Dying. Good r iddance!,” Vanessa Viti- ello u rquhart asks hopefully, Is gay culture dead? She argues for an assimilationist approach in which lb GTQ-identified people “integrate fully into the [heterosexual] communities that give birth to us.” She writes, “Those who suggest that we, as gays, will always need places of refuge show a failure of imagination at how bright our future can be. They assume that there must always be some stigma, some feeling of difference, or separateness, or loneliness, remaining after the work of the lb GTQ movement is accomplished.” In a historical moment in which same- sex marriage continues to gain footholds at both national and state levels and lb GTQ characters are becoming a regular aspect of American film and television, it is easy to understand u rquhart’s optimistic view. In a rejoinder, however, June Thomas resists u rquhart’s assimilationist impulse, arguing instead that l auron Kehrer is a PhD candidate in musicology at the e astman School of m usic, u niversity

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American Music – University of Illinois Press

Published: Sep 11, 2016

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