ABSTRACT Despite the increasing visibility of queerness and queer folks in American popular culture, there is a concerning dissonance between this symbolic cultural progression, and the reality of queer lives that continue to be marked by discrimination, oppression, and violence. This article considers the ways in which RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009) simultaneously constitutes this increase in queer visibility, and yet also perpetuates specific hierarchies of subjectivity which work to maintain hegemonic power. There is a particular irony here: this television programme is both promoted and consumed through the lens of increasing queer access to the public sphere through visual representation, and yet because of the ways that it legitimises certain specific queer identities, works to delegitimize others, rendering them invisible and/or inferior.

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服务于“现实”电视“现实”：阅读鲁保罗的阻力竞赛及其现实建构

摘要尽管在美国通俗文化中，酷儿和酷儿的知名度日益提高，但这种象征性的文化发展与酷儿生活的现实之间仍然存在令人不安的不和谐感，这种现实仍然以歧视，压迫和暴力为特征。本文考虑了RuPaul的Drag Drag（2009）同时构成酷儿可见度的这种方式，同时也延续了主观性的特定层次结构，这些层次结构可以维持霸权。这里有一个特别的讽刺意味：该电视节目通过通过视觉表示增加酷儿对公共领域访问的镜头而得到推广和消费，但是由于它使某些特定酷儿身份合法化，使其他人合法化，渲染的方式他们看不见和/或劣等。