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Camp, as queer creation and manifestation, objects to the stigmatization that marks the unnatural, extraordinary, perverse, sick, inefficient, dangerous, and freakish. As political counterculture, it is much more than a mode of aestheticism or worship of the artifice. By celebrating its extravagance, carnival, stylized eroticism, masquerade, and colorful kitsch and mimicry, camp provides a different perspective that provokes heteronormative gender roles and codes of visibility and behavior. It practically challenges the dominant ideology produced by the affluent white, straight male elite and its powerful culture industry. Camp is manifested as an alternative aesthetic and ethic counterpraxis that undermines and reconsiders the epistemology intended by the bourgeoisie production and reproduction, presentation, and representation of its hegemony. Three paradigms of the politicization of camp subculture in the 1990s are analyzed in this article: Stephen Elliot's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Nigel Finch's Stonewall, and the episode “Homer Phobia” from Matt Groening's The Simpsons.

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