How to Be Gay

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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0674066790
ISBN 13
9780674066793
Category
LGBTQ+
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Pages
560
Abstract
Description
No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis’s best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea, they will say, is just a stereotyperidiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth.David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Inspired by the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that Halperin taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and - from Amzon
Biblio Notes
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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SDEI Diversity Library | 39 | 1 | Yes |