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Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma Monographs these works are crafted andIn Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U. S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performance Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty first centuries a