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Frederik Dhaenens, “The Fantastic Queer: Reading Gay Representations in Torchwood and True Blood as Articulations of Queer Resistance,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 30 (2013): 102–116.
Ibid.; J. M. Tyree, “True Blood and Let the Right One In,” Film Quarterly 63 (2009): 31–37
Sabrina Boyer, “‘Thou Shalt Not Crave Thy Neighbor’: True Blood, Abjection, and Otherness,” Studies in Popular Culture 33 (2002): 21–41.
Teresa de Lauretis, “Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities: An Introduction.” Differences: A Journal ofFeminist Cultural Studies 3 (1991): 296–313
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990).
Ibid.; Michael J. Ryan, “Queer Theory,” in Modern Sociological Theory, ed. George Ritzer, 507–514 (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2008)
Arlene Stein and Ken Plummer, “‘I Can‘t Even Think Straight:’ ‘Queer’ Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology,” Sociological Theory 12 (1994): 178–187.
Ryan Conrad, ed., Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage (Lewiston, ME: Against Equality Publishing Collective, 2010).
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Missari, S. (2015). Queer Resistance in an Imperfect Allegory: The Politics of Sexuality in True Blood. In: Gurr, B. (eds) Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-49331-6_7
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