Freak to Chic

In this unique intervention in the study of queer culture, Dominic Janes highlights that, under the gaze of social conservatism, ''gay'' life was hiding in plain sight. Indeed, he argues that the worlds of glamour, fashion, art and countercultural style provided rich opportunities for the construction of queer spectacle in London. Inspired by the legacies of Oscar Wilde, interwar and later 20th-ce...