Conversion Tactics in Terrence McNally’s and Paul Rudnick’s Gay Gospels
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In their 1995 essay “‘Preaching to the Converted,’” Tim Miller and David Román respond to the charge that gay and lesbian dramatists write strictly for insiders already sympathetic to their political and artistic positions. Focusing in particular on queer community-based productions, Miller and Román challenge those who assume “queer artists to be didactic and queer audiences to be static” (173). While they do not deny queer productions’ particular appeal for insider-audiences, Miller and Román employ a provocative analogy to compare the coming-out process to an ongoing religious commitment. Defining their “converted” as the “identifiable critical mass of queers who together compose a congregation of people converted into believing in the necessity of queer identities and communities, culture and politics,” they assert that individuals within that group must remain “open to a series of conversions” (177, 178). Queer theatre, they argue, functions much as church services do, enabling participants to sustain their conversions by renewing their sense of identity and motivating them to act out of that identity
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".