Boys and the banned: Michael Warner on Outlaw Representation. (Books). (book review)

Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art, by Richard Meyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 376 pages, $35.

"CENSORSHIP AND HOMOSEXUALITY"--merely to name the topic suggests a heroic narrative. Most of time we think of censorship as an extraordinary intervention. The censor arrives, like the angel of the law after the Fall, or like Edwin Meese, standing with a fiery sword between us and some purer, freer form of expression, some barely imaginable possibility of direct representation, or in the case of homosexuality, ...

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