James Finn
Oct 21, 2021

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Well, I suppose some would quibble that camp, at least high camp, actually is art. Prism & Pen's Fred Shirley would probably start quoting Susan Sontag at this point in protest. ;-) But I take your point, that drag is a parody of entertainment art meant itself to entertain.

Parody seems to be an essential element of camp and of drag, but does a parody of art qualify as art? Sontag gave an emphatic yes to that question, but I know others disagree.

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James Finn
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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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