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English
Noun
lesploitation (uncountable)
- 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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