For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots the word used for gaymen was queers. In <strong>The Culture of Queers</strong> Richard Dyer traces the cont... » 

For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots the word used for gaymen was queers. In The Culture of Queers Richard Dyer traces the contours ofqueer culture examining the differences and continuities with the gay culturewhich succeeded it.Opening with a discussion of the very concept of queers Dyer asks what itmeans to speak of a sexual grouping having a culture and addresses issues suchas gay attitudes to women and the notion of camp. From screaming queens tosensitive vampires and sad young men and from pulp novels to pornography tothe films of Fassbinder The Culture of Queers explores the history of queerarts and media. «