LGBTIQ+ literature & writers
Articles
- Displaying the Monster: Patrick White, Sexuality, Celebrity
White’s professions of his sexuality can be seen as attesting to the intertwined, if sometimes conlicting, impulses to confess aspects of one’s private life, and…
1 May 2010 - ‘Are You for Magic?’ Patrick White and Camp
"I want to tease out White's 'theatrical' aspect as the camp basis of much of his style, and how this operates across both the plays…
1 November 2014 - The Writing and Publishing of Australia’s First Gay Novel
The Australian writer Gerald Marcus Glaskin was quite a handsome fellow, though his naval record—complexion sallow, hair black, eyes brown; height five feet ten inches…
1 November 2014 - On Not Having Sex: Sumner Locke Elliott and Queer History
This essay argues that we need ways to read unexpressed queer desire and the absence of sex in writing by gay authors that don’t fall…
19 December 2019 - Revaluing Memoir and Rebuilding Mothership in Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts
While much of the scholarship on Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts has analysed it through the framework of auto-theory, I argue that considering it through the…
28 April 2020