Being gay book
Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance
It's definitely a excellent thing that this book, originally published in , feels antiquated. Attitudes towards gays have changed dramatically in last 15 years and I'm grateful to hold been born when I was.
Maybe I didn't do my homework, but I expected this manual to have a more unusual, focused narrative. Each chapter focuses on a different group of homosexuals, i.e. those living with AIDS, those living in heterosexual marriages, teenagers, the elderly. I found the most compelling section to be the author's autobiography and the obstacles he faced with his peers in the psychoanalytic field. It's amazing to think that homosexuality was regarded as a mental illness until fairly recently.
While not a latest gay studies book by any stretch of the imagination, Becoming Gay gives one an appreciation of how today's society is relatively tolerant and supportive of homosexuals.
Urubuquaquá
Dear friends,
Remember when Pride was a day? Now it’s a full month, and now that that month is over, I ask forgiveness for stretching it into another. But I wanted to share this essay I have just published in The Nation. It’s part of a longer book I am writing about the Americans of my generation, the generation of everything-getting-better, that already feels as stranded as a Stegasaurus.
Yours,
B.
Through some chemical quirk, I was born gay. Though inborn, this distinctive did not manifest at birth. Sexuality is like height rather than eye color: I was born with cobalt eyes, but my height and sexuality did not expose themselves immediately. I was meant to be tall, and meant to be attracted to other boys; but when I was a child, I was no more queer than I was tall. Since children of my generation were assumed to be heterosexual, you had to question the assumption—become same-sex attracted in the eyes of others—and it was not until I told people, in late adolescence (around the equal time I became tall), that others began to perceive me as a member of a minority.
For most of
About the Book
Being gay is not a given. Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Male lover makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in homosexual life—in Mexico, for example, and by extension in other places as well.
Known for his writings on the construction of sexual identities, anthropologist and cultural studies scholar Roger N. Lancaster ponders four decades of visits to Mexican cities. In a brisk series of reflections combining storytelling, ethnography, critique, and razor-edged polemic, he shows, first, how economic inequality affects sexual subjects and subjectivities in ways both obvious and subtle, and, second, how what it means to be de ambiente—“on the scene” or “in the life”—has metamorphosed under changing political-economic conditions. The result is a groundbreaking intervention into ongoing debates over persona politics—and a renewal of our understanding of how identities are constructed, struggled for, and lived.
About the Author
Roger N. Lancaster is Professor of Anthr
Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion – PREORDER
Currently available for preorder. Shipping to US customers in late August , and customers outside the US in late September
Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, editedby Zane McNeill, Blu Buchanan and Riley Clare Valentine, is the second book in Working Class History's Everyday Acts series, following up from Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion.
Sometimes it pays to be gay and do crime!
As communities are boldly rising to test capitalism, white supremacy, and authoritarianism, Be Gay, Execute Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion is your ultimate mentor to LGBTQ+ resilience and rebellion. Packed with hundreds of snapshots of extreme queer history for every day of the year, this book celebrates the bold, the brave, and the beautifully defiant moments that have shaped the fight for justice.
Ever wondered why the Stonewall protests became an uprising or what the earliest acts of queer resistance looked like? How about