Philip Core, in his encyclopedic book _Camp: The Lie that Tells the Truth_ both discusses a number of stars from a particular gay male perspective and discusses the relationship of gay male audiences, including gay critics, to some stars. Koestenbaum himself touches on this in reference to opera stars in his _The Queen's Throat_, although he's more interested there in gay men's--or more specifically "Opera Queens'" relationship as readers to writings about opera stars, rather than as writers about star. Gay writers--in addition to those noted by David Connor--who have written about theater and movie stars include Lucius Beebe and Alexander Wollcott (sp?). Charlie Krinsky [log in to unmask] On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, David Conner, UC Santa Cruz wrote: > Here's a gossipy question for you all: I'm working on an essay on Wayne > Koestenbaum's most recent book, Jackie Under My Skin, and it's gotten me > wondering if there might not exist a kind of liminal queer tradition of > writing about celebrities. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]