The Queer Potentiality of Silence: Sound and Identity in Newsreel Drag Show Recordings

Travis L. Wagner; School of Library and Information Sciences at The University of South Carolina

“Harvard boys borrow their sister’s clothes for female roles in Pi Eta Club musical show. Dressed as ‘chorus girls’ the boys dance and play leap frog. One boy is shown putting on makeup and smoking a pipe”

Temporary Description of Fox News Story B7256 through B7257 (Pı Eta club musıcal show--Outtakes)

“Participants must painstakingly avoid being mistaken as sincere homosexuals by demonstrating that the sexual encounter is something other than sex, and in many cases, they do this by agreeing that the encounter was compelled by others (such as older fraternity brothers) or by circumstances that left them little choice (such as the apparently quite dire need to obtain access to a particular fraternity).”

Not Gay: Sex Between Straıght Whıte Men (Jane Ward, 2015)

“So while the film’s queerness cannot be located at the level of identity, we can argue for queerness as a set of spatialized relations that are permitted through the white male’s stupidity, his disorientation in time and space”

“Dude Where’s My Phallus?”: Forgetting, Losing, Looping” in The Queer Art of Faılure (J. Jack Halberstam, 2011)

Silence

Silence

Silence

Silence

Silence

Silence

Sexual minorities.

Genderqueer.

Paraphilias.

LGBTQ+

Queer as folk (Television program : United Kingdom).

Queer critique.

Queer.

Female impersonators in motion pictures.

Male impersonators in motion pictures.

Drag kings.

Drag queens.