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elements-8856	Yaksich, Michael J.	Consuming Queer: The Commodification of Culture and its Effects on Social Acceptance	2005	12	.pdf	application/pdf	7745	540	70	1 V While cultural visi- bility is essential to a positive portrayal of gay individuals, the commodification of gay culture may perpetuate nega- tivity. 1 X Mike Feather stone explains that, rather than ac- cepting gay culture, lifestyles display their individuality and sense of style in the particularity of the assemblage of goods, clothes, practices, experiences, and appearance and bodily disposition they design regardless of stereotypes.x Commodification prefabricates culture into easy to con- sume products and images that allow the dominant culture to utilize stereotypes i n constructing lifestyles for consumption.	cache/elements-8856.pdf	txt/elements-8856.txt