109:. Babuscio asserts that the gay sensibility is a creative energy that is formed out an awareness of the world based on social oppression. Given this fact, he believes that the gay sensibility responds to society's need to label and subsequently polarize people, which has resulted in camp. Despite acknowledging a difficulty in defining camp, given it can be subject to one's own view and tastes, he does emphasize consistent features that are basic to camp such as irony aestheticism, theatricality, and humor. Babuscio's essay addresses each feature individually, providing an understanding of the typical elements of camp, and then goes on to illustrate these concepts by including examples wherein he analyzes camp as it relates to
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described the work as "a mosaic of self-told case histories" that "speaks very powerfully as the authentic voice of an oppressed minority", and goes on to add that
Babuscio "presents his testimony with great intelligence and subtlety". Another reviewer believed the book proved a "useful primer" for
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He is best known for his work "Camp and the Gay
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to complete his master's and PhD in history. During the 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a film critic and a gay counselor. He was simultaneously a full-time teacher at the
Kingsway-Princeton College in London lecturing on topics related to history and film.
176:. The couple lived together in England for twenty years. January 11, 1990, Jack Babuscio died at the age of 52. Both Babuscio and Dunn wanted it known that Babuscio passed away from Kaposi's sarcoma and internal hemorrhaging as a result of
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