LGBTQ theory This essay is about lesbians, gay, and queer theory, new criticism, or cultural criticism. Use this books: 1-critical theory today 3rd edition  2- what lies between us ( NAYOMI MUNAWEERA) there is three theory:  1- feminists criticism  2- psychoanalytic criticism  3- Marxist criticism  choose one of the theory then use it on the essay to express lesbian, gay, and queer approaches. Define what the lesbian/ gay experience is ? There is many multiple ways to define what that experience is. What constitutes lesibanism change?   also look at the economic of lesbians/ gays life like if you are a lesbian  women you are going to make less than a women’s who are not lesbians.  How lesbians/ gays relationships presented? what is the history of lesbian, and how their life changed over the years Here is also some questions will help u to write the essay( this is the discussion question for this essay)  1. What are the politics (ideological agendas) of specific gay, lesbian, or queer works, and how are those politics revealed in, for example, the work’s the‑ matic content or portrayals of its characters? 2. What are the poetics (literary devices and strategies) of a specific lesbian, gay, or queer work? What does the work contribute to the ongoing attempt to define a uniquely lesbian, gay, or queer poetics, literary tradition, or canon? 3. What does the work contribute to our knowledge of queer, gay, or lesbian experience and history, including literary history? 4. How is queer, gay, or lesbian experience coded in texts that are apparently heterosexual? (This analysis is usually done for works by writers who lived at a time when openly queer, gay, or lesbian texts would have been con‑ sidered unacceptable, or it is done in order to help reformulate the sexual orientation of a writer formerly presumed heterosexual.) 5. How might the works of heterosexual writers be reread to reveal an unspo‑ ken or unconscious lesbian, gay, or queer presence? That is, does the work have an unconscious lesbian, gay, or queer desire or conflict that it sub‑ merges (or that heterosexual readers have submerged)? 6. What does the work reveal about the operations (socially, politically, psy‑ chologically) of heterosexism? Is the work (consciously or unconsciously) homophobic? Does the work critique, celebrate, or blindly accept hetero‑ sexist values? 7. How does the literary text illustrate the problematics of sexuality and sexual “identity,” that is, the ways in which human sexuality does not fall neatly into the separate categories defined by the words homosexual and heterosexual? 8. What does the literary work suggest about the experience of groups of people who have been ignored, underrepresented, or misrepresented by traditional history (for example, laborers, prisoners, women, people of color, lesbians and gay men, children, the insane, and so on)? Keep in mind that new historical and cultural criticis.

1. LGBTQ theory
This essay is about lesbians, gay, and queer theory, new
criticism, or cultural criticism.
Use this books:
1-critical theory today 3rd edition
2- what lies between us ( NAYOMI MUNAWEERA)
there is three theory:
1- feminists criticism
2- psychoanalytic criticism
3- Marxist criticism
choose one of the theory then use it on the essay to express
lesbian, gay, and queer approaches. Define what the lesbian/
gay experience is ? There is many multiple ways to define what
that experience is.
What constitutes lesibanism change?
also look at the economic of lesbians/ gays life like if you are a
lesbian women you are going to make less than a women’s who
are not lesbians.
How lesbians/ gays relationships presented? what is the history
of lesbian, and how their life changed over the years
Here is also some questions will help u to write the essay( this
is the discussion question for this essay)

2. 1. What are the politics (ideological agendas) of specific gay,
lesbian, or queer
works, and how are those politics revealed in, for example, the
work’s the‑
matic content or portrayals of its characters?
2. What are the poetics (literary devices and strategies) of a
specific lesbian,
gay, or queer work? What does the work contribute to the
ongoing attempt
to define a uniquely lesbian, gay, or queer poetics, literary
tradition, or
canon?
3. What does the work contribute to our knowledge of queer,
gay, or lesbian
experience and history, including literary history?
4. How is queer, gay, or lesbian experience coded in texts that
are apparently
heterosexual? (This analysis is usually done for works by

3. writers who lived
at a time when openly queer, gay, or lesbian texts would have
been con‑
sidered unacceptable, or it is done in order to help reformulate
the sexual
orientation of a writer formerly presumed heterosexual.)
5. How might the works of heterosexual writers be reread to
reveal an unspo‑
ken or unconscious lesbian, gay, or queer presence? That is,
does the work
have an unconscious lesbian, gay, or queer desire or conflict
that it sub‑
merges (or that heterosexual readers have submerged)?
6. What does the work reveal about the operations (socially,
politically, psy‑
chologically) of heterosexism? Is the work (consciously or
unconsciously)
homophobic? Does the work critique, celebrate, or blindly
accept hetero‑
sexist values?

4. 7. How does the literary text illustrate the problematics of
sexuality and
sexual “identity,” that is, the ways in which human sexuality
does not fall
neatly into the separate categories defined by the words
homosexual and
heterosexual?
8. What does the literary work suggest about the experience of
groups of
people who have been ignored, underrepresented, or
misrepresented by
traditional history (for example, laborers, prisoners, women,
people of
color, lesbians and gay men, children, the insane, and so on)?
Keep in
mind that new historical and cultural criticism usually include
attention to
the intersection of the literary work with nonliterary discourses
prevalent
in the culture in which the work emerged and/or in the cultures
in which

5. it has been interpreted and often focus on such issues as the
circulation of
power and the dynamics of personal and group identity.