Diaspora and hybridity: Queer identities and the ethnicity model

Textual Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 271-293

  Sinfield, Alan ^a  

^a Diaspora and Hybridity ^*

Author keywords

Civil rights; Eethnicity; Gay men and lesbians; Hybridity; Pet Shop Boys; Subculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001103072     PISSN: 0950236X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502369608582247     Document Type: Article

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