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“Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid”: The “Dignity of Queer Shame”
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 48, Number 1, March 2015
- pp. 17-32
- 10.1353/mos.2015.0012
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Using the work of Walt Whitman and David Wojnarowicz, I argue that queer shame, which some LGBTs deny or repress, not only gives meaning to “queerness” but also motivates creative expressiveness in those queer writers/artists who make use of and dignify it.