[Commlist] New book: Globalized Queerness: Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture

New book: Globalized Queerness: Identities and Commodities in Queer 
Popular Culture
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/globalized-queerness-9781350292802

Has a global queer popular culture emerged at the expense of local queer
artists? In this book, Helton Levy argues that global queer culture is
indebted to specific, local references that artists carry from their
early experiences in life, which then become homogenized by contemporary
media markets. The assumption that queer publics live and consume only
through a global set of references, including gay parades and rainbow
flags, for example, erases many personal complexities.

Utilizing insights from media reports published across the world's ten
biggest media markets, Levy argues that there are a series of conditions
which artists and cultural actors negotiate once they achieve any kind
of success in mainstream media, while local queer references remain
unseen in the wider media world. For that reason, he argues for stronger
incentives for communities to accept and acknowledge the work of queer
people before and after commoditization.

Dr Helton Levy is a Lecturer in Digital and Visual Media at London 
Metropolitan University
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