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‘Camp partly as the homosexuals mean it as private sorrow’ (*)

December 28, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

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Surprisingly “deep” look at the British “camp” humor tradition.

(Background on polari.)

Whereas I tried to sit through The Nance on Live From Lincoln Center and it was just awful. Maybe it’s “supposed to be” awful in some “meta” way but I couldn’t be bothered. How did it end? Did he die? Probably.

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