SOURCE: Barnard, Ian. “Gloria Anzaldúa's Queer Mestisaje.” MELUS 22, no. 1 (spring 1997): 35-53.

In the following essay, Barnard examines Anzaldúa's utilization of queer theory in Borderlands/La Frontera.

In the 1992 “queer issue” of The Village Voice, Dennis Cooper quotes Johnny Noxzema and Rex Boy characterizing the Canadian publication BIMBOX, which Noxzema and Rex Boy edited:

You are entering a gay and lesbian-free zone. … Effective immediately, BIMBOX is at war against lesbians and gays. A war in which modern queer boys and queer girls are united against the prehistoric thinking and demented self-serving politics of the above-mentioned scum. BIMBOX hereby renounces its past use of the term lesbian and/or gay in a positive manner. This is a civil war against the ultimate evil, and consequently we must identify us and them in no uncertain terms. … So, dear lesbian womon or gay man to whom perhaps BIMBOX has been...