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48 - Queer Print Culture

The Market and Circulation of Queer Literature

from How to Recognize the Queer Past before (and during) the Advent of Medicalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2024

Benjamin Kahan
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Louisiana State University
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This article traces the evolving modes of queer print culture in the 20th and 21st century.  From little magazines, avant-garde presses, and overseas publication in the 1920s, through the rise of pulp paperbacks and adult bookstores during the Cold War, through the emergence of feminist and queer presses in the 1990s, to ebooks, social media, and self-publishing in the 21st century, queer writing appears in diverse forms, across the full range of respectability and price points in the publishing ecosystem. Mainstream publishers’ interest in queer lives ebbs and flows, but queer print culture is opportunistic, piggy-backing on any number of niche publishing markets, taking advantage of loopholes and ephemeral publishing trends.  The rise of queer young adult fiction, from the queer fan fiction of the 1990s, suggests the ongoing inventiveness, resilience, and creativity of queer literature as it finds readers and creates new forms of writing and reading.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Queer Print Culture
  • Edited by Benjamin Kahan, Louisiana State University
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
  • Online publication: 17 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108918725.052
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  • Queer Print Culture
  • Edited by Benjamin Kahan, Louisiana State University
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
  • Online publication: 17 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108918725.052
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  • Queer Print Culture
  • Edited by Benjamin Kahan, Louisiana State University
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
  • Online publication: 17 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108918725.052
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