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Mondo Homo: Your Essential Guide to Queer Pop Culture.


Mondo mon·do   Slang
adj.
Enormous; huge: a mondo list of pizza toppings.

adv.
Extremely; very: a mondo big mistake.
 Homo: Your Essential Guide to Queer Pop Culture * Edited by Richard Andreoli * Alyson * $17.95

Everybody knows gays are light years ahead of the larger culture, so why don't they realize that gay pop iconography iconography (ī'kŏnŏg`rəfē) [Gr.,=image-drawing] or iconology [Gr.,=image-study], in art history, the study and interpretation of figural representations, either individual or symbolic, religious or secular;  long ago moved past Judy Garland and Bette Davis? This lively guide will get you (and your hipness-challenged straight friends) up to speed on the gay world according to 20- to 30-year-olds. Included are such phenomena as Sid and Marty Krofft Sid and Marty Krofft are a sibling team of prolific television producers who were influential in children's television and variety show programs, particularly throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. , Shawn Colvin Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956 in Vermillion, South Dakota) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician. Childhood and early career
Colvin's formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
, Hole, Strangers With Candy, and--that holy of holies--Glitter. Indispensible.
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Author:Marler, Regina
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Nov 23, 2004
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