Making Things Perfectly Queer

Alexander Doty teaches film and mass culture in the English department at Lehigh University He is the author of articles on film, mass culture, and queer studies, and is currently coediting an anthology on lesbian, gay, and queer mass culture theory and criticism.

• There's something queer here; Whose text is it anyway? - Queer cultures, queer auteurs, and queer authorship; I love "Laverne and Shirley": lesbian narratives, queer pleasures, and television sitcoms; The gay straight man: Jack Benny and "The Jack Benny Programme"; The sissy boy, the fat ladies, and the dykes - queerness and/as gender in Pee-wee's world; Afterword: "you flush it, I flaunt it"!