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An LGBTRDCST Deconstruction of Gainsborough’s Blue
Boy
Blue Boy must be examined through the lens
Of neo-post-colonial queer
theory
and LGBT hegemonism
Inverted as bourgeois
sentimentalism
It subverts the trope of
trans-feminism
As a patriarchal gesture of
scorn
Plasticized in pale
iridescent blue
And transgressive in its
imposture
Or maybe it’s some kid bribed
with a shilling
To pose for this picture, however
unwilling
