ABSTRACT

Benjamin allows Jason to focus on the fashion and style of queer experience at Persimmon University. Jason elaborates on how queer men may embrace their inherent chameleon(s) to empower themselves, despite living within an oppressive context that demands assimilation into rigid, gender-normal aesthetics. Jason and Benjamin locate (while drinking wine, talking about boyfriends, and musing over the latest runway collections) the exhilaration available to queer men who find power in transgression.