lesploitation

English

Noun

lesploitation (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of lezploitation
   • 2008, Patrick Mahoney, Tibet: Lamplight Unto a Darkened World: The American Delusion, a Parody of Life, Booksurge.com, →ISBN, page 831:

     To highlight their cluelessness, lesploitation was becoming the single man's obsession, and people like Jillian thought that two gay men would find a three-way with a straight woman as entertaining.

   • 2008 December 23, Andrei Harmsworth, “Rihanna and Katy hottest for ’09?”, in Metro, UK:

     Kissed A Girl chart topper Perry is tipped to continue her own bout of controversy using her ‘lesploitation pop’ and image to keep in the limelight.

   • 2011, Katrin Horn, “Follow the Glitter Way: Lady Gag and Camp”, in Richard J. Gray II, editor, The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga: Critical Essays, McFarland & Company, published 2012, →ISBN, page 98:

     Thus “Telephone” inverts the power dynamics of media reception, where the empowering or queer reading of such products as lesploitation films are relegated as “readings against the grain” or appropriations.

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