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[US] J.M. Saslow Pictures & Passions 255: [Tom of Finland figures] crystallized the ‘clone’ fashions that identified Euro-American gay urbanites into the 1980s [Simes:DLSS].
at clone, n.
[US] J.M. Saslow Pictures & Passions 244: J. Edgar Hoover, the federal police chief, was himself a closet case [Simes:DLSS].
at closet-case (n.) under closet, adj.
[US] J.M. Saslow Pictures & Passions 97: When one of his horses won a race, Bazzi defiantly insisted the heralds announce him by his derogatory nickname [sc. il Sodoma]—arguably the first ‘coming out’ in Western history [Simes:DLSS].
at coming out, n.
[US] J.M. Saslow Pictures & Passions 268: when Millett and her girlfriends publicly came out NOW almost imploded in a panis that they would feed the stereotype of activists as ‘dikey’ man-haters [Simes:DLSS].
at dykey, adj.
[US] J.M. Saslow Pictures & Passions 257: There was more than a hint of subversive Duchampian genderfuck in Warhol’s fright-wigged public face [Simes:DLSS].
at gender-fuck, n.
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