Discuss the ways in which gender studies and gay and queer studies have enabled critics to see texts afresh.

For the purpose of my essay I will focus on the topics Gender studies and Gay and Queer Studies as forms of critical interpretation.
The idea of Gender Studies and Gay and Queer Studies allows critics to see texts afresh as they are relatively new concepts. Up until the late 1960’s heterosexual culture was intolerant of gay culture in literature, it was seen as perverse. But then gay and lesbien scholars who had up till then remained silent regarding their sexuality or the presence of homosexuality themes in literature began to speak. Their work along with feminism helped bring into being a new school of gender theory in the 1980’s. Gender critics began to study gender and sexuality as discursive and historical institutions.
While Gender Studies and Gay and Lesbien studies is a fresh and exciting new perspective it is not an easy one to work with. Gender and gay and lesbien theorists are concerned with unearthing a hidden tradition of homosexual culture in literature an...