The queerness of objects / Chris Brickell & Judith Collard -- The first gay kiss? / Richard Bruce Parkinson -- Tūtānekai's flute / Paerau Warbrick -- Faces of queer-aboriginality in Australia / Dino Hodge -- Pasting together an identity / Helen Pausacker -- The strapless satchel / Jeffrey Vaughan -- The queering of action man / Gregory Minissale -- Reading two gay histories / Ben Anderson-Nathe -- Fragments of Sappho / Chris Brickell -- New World slavery's queer object / Carina Pasquesi -- Freda's mountaineering memoir / Chris Brickell -- Freddy's illustrated letter / Rachel Hope Cleves -- Four saints in three acts / Tirza True Latimer -- Donald Friend's life in letters / Timothy Roberts -- Dear Dawn, can I hold you? / Loren Britton -- A gay magazine in communist Poland / Lukasz Szulc -- The cunt coloring book / Margo Hobbs -- Henry's albums / Barry Reay -- Sammy's stud file / Barry Reay -- The proverbial lavender dildo / Erica Rand -- Amos's chair / Barry Reay -- Cruising masculine spaces / Judith Collard -- The stuff of cruising / John Howard -- The Warren Cup / Chris Brickell -- Monuments / Peter Sherlock -- Robert Grant's shoes / Chris Brickell -- Oscar's photograph? / Neil Bartlett -- Saint Sebastian / Chris Brickell -- Tender buttons / Jane Trengove -- The paintings of Lois White / Judith Collard -- The L Word Quilt / Amanda Littauer & Diane Johns -- The queen of Polka Holes / Katsuhiko Suganuma -- Queer dogs / Heike Bauer -- Our own dear house / Bev Roberts -- An attic apartment / Chris Brickell -- The rotary dial telephone / Matt Cook -- C734 / Christopher Castigua & Christopher Reed -- Saint Eugenia's relics / Robert Mills -- A tram ticket, an Egyptian and an Englishman / Robert Aldrich -- To my friend from his friend / Graham Willett -- The story of a locket / Peter Wells -- Waiting till we meet again / Joanne Campbell -- A set of wedding photos / Elise Chenier -- Carl Wittman and the AIDS Quilt / Amanda Littauer & Diane Johns -- Exhibit A: the powder puff / Wayne Murdoch -- Neil McConaghy's penile plethysmograph / Kate Davison -- A military discharge certificate / Shirleene Robinson -- The Moral Majority is neither / Timothy Willem Jones -- Devotional objects / Melissa M. Wilcox -- Political buttons / Katherine A. Hermes -- Plastic politics / James Burford, Kath Khangpiboon & Jutathorn Pravattiyagul -- Bloomers and monocles / Nikki Sullivan & Craig Middleton -- A lesbian waistcoat / Nadia Gush -- Lesbian lipstick / Reina Lewis -- Punk jacket / Marcus Bunyan -- The Australian Speedo / Yorick Smaal -- The world's first gay travel guide / Daniel F. Brandl-Beck -- Keith's slides / Chris Brickell -- John Hunter's make-up box / Chris Brickell -- The portable lesbian party / Alison Oram -- The Rangers Motor Club Flag / Timothy Roberts -- The disco ball and the DJ / Philip Hughes -- Queer smartphones / Simon Clay.
Summary:
"Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, various reminders of state power, as well as the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? The sixty-three chapters in Queer Objects consider this question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures, and space. In this unique international collaboration, well-known and newer writers traverse world history to write about fabulous, captivating, and transgressive items ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and Roman artefacts to political placards, snapshots, sex toys, and the smartphone"-- Provided by publisher.
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