Gothic Queer CultureIn 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 thoughtincluding ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performanceWestengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty first centuries a