
Something’s flaming in the kitchen: Exploring the kitchen as a stage of gay domesticity in Queer as Folk
This article examines how Showtime’s Queer as Folk uses the space of the kitchen as a way of staging a negotiation and, at times, contestation of the normative image of gay domesticity that was emerging in American television during the early to mid-2000s. Through a close analysis
of the programme’s representation of queer architecture, food preparation and misuse of kitchens, this discussion highlights the ways in which Queer as Folk complicates the assimilationist perspective of gay kitchens as a heteronormative, wholesome, family-oriented space. This article
first traces the ways in which the kitchen functions as a locus of gay identity and domesticity in mainstream American television and then proceeds to unpack the ways in which kitchens in Queer as Folk comply with or challenge dominant narratives of gay domesticity. It will be shown that the
programme’s use of kitchens pushes viewers to recognize the ways in which different models of gay home life are negotiated through spatial means.
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Keywords: cooking; domesticity; gay men; kitchen; queer; sex; space; television
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Bowdoin College
Publication date: March 1, 2017
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