Cover	1
	Half Title	2
	Title Page	4
	Copyright Page	5
	Dedication	6
	Table of Contents	8
	List of Figures	11
	Preface to the Paperback Edition	13
	Acknowledgements	16
	Introduction: Placing the Self within the Frame	17
	Vulnerability, and intimate participation	20
	Discourse, life story and identification	22
	Mobility, becoming and thematic framework	25
	Conclusion	26
	1 New Storytelling: Transitions from the Past	28
	Introduction	28
	Outside the literary, and towards the vernacular frame	31
	Transitions in new storytelling: rejecting the myth	33
	Audience identification with iconic performers and the relay of narratives	36
	BBC radio and Male Homosexual	38
	Gore Vidal: the performance and the partnership	42
	k.d. lang and Waymon Hudson: role models, vernacular voices and political forces	47
	k.d. lang: establishing the arena	49
	Waymon Hudson: the personal self and the political frame	52
	Conclusion	56
	2 Gay Identity and Self-Reflexivity	58
	Introduction	58
	Christopher Isherwood, storytelling and self-reflexivity	60
	Stereotypes, archetypes and The Green Bay Tree	63
	Social construction, Oscar Wilde and ‘queer’	67
	Quentin Crisp and The Naked Civil Servant	70
	Trial by media: Peter Wildeblood and testimony	74
	Ellen DeGeneres and George Michael: therapy and subversion	78
	Conclusion	87
	3 Community, History and Transformation	89
	Introduction	89
	The discursive gay community	91
	History, the unified subject and postmodernity	96
	Transformation	98
	Victim and Dirk Bogarde: intended identification	99
	Armistead Maupin and Sarah Waters: popular frames	105
	Tony Kushner and Angels in America: community and transformation	116
	Conclusion	120
	4 Factual Media Space: Intimacy, Participation and Therapy	123
	Introduction	123
	Factual media space: Joshua Gamson, the talk show and vulnerability	124
	Oppositional public sphere, intimacy and emotion	127
	Russell Harty and Dirk Bogarde: signposting, domesticity and humanity	129
	Peter Adair and Pedro Zamora: whole person learning and AIDS	135
	The Ultimate Brokeback Forum: therapy and agency	146
	Conclusion	151
	5 Commodity and Family	153
	Introduction	153
	Family values and Debra Chasnoff	155
	Commodity: use and exchange	157
	Economy of narratives, shared experience and the real	160
	Debra Chasnoff: school, narratives and humanist education	162
	Derek Jarman and Russell T Davies: domesticity, exchange and transformation	165
	Derek Jarman: domesticity under construction	167
	Russell T Davies: commodity identity	173
	Conclusion	179
	6 Teenage Identity and Ritual	182
	Introduction	182
	Gay teen identity: similar experiences and expectations	184
	Ritual and performance: liminality, participation and antistructure	187
	Jonathan Harvey, Beautiful Thing and reflective realism	190
	Todd Haynes and Alan Bennett: gay youth narratives in film	194
	Coming Out to Class and LGB Teens	201
	The Gay Youth Corner: affirmation, disclosure and agency	206
	Conclusion	210
	7 Other Storytelling and the New Frontier	213
	Introduction	213
	New identifications within the queer diaspora	216
	Dangerous Living: other storytelling, colonialism and the new frontier	219
	Nature and instinct in Before Night Falls	223
	Uruguay, Two to Tango and Gay on the Cape	228
	Out in Iran and Jihad for Love: civil rights, family and belief	235
	Conclusion	242
	Conclusion: Cohesion, Fragmentation and ‘Becoming’	245
	Notes	249
	References	257
	Works cited	257
	Internet sources	267
	Select Filmography	270
	Index	274