Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, and Sex - Softcover

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9781563334566: Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, and Sex

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ISBN 10: 1563334569 ISBN 13: 9781563334566

Publisher: Masquerade Books, 1996

Taking Liberties brings together some of the most divergent views published in recent years on the state of contemporary gay male culture. Michael Bronski, himself a widely published and respected gay cultural critic, here presents some of the community's foremost essayists, who weigh in on such slippery topics as outing, masculine identity, pornography, the pedophile movement, community definition, political strategy and much more. By steadfastly shunning easy answers, Taking Liberties testifies to the intellectual vitality of a community that is stronger and more seriously challenged than ever before.

Contributors include: Bill Andriette, Allen Barnett, Bruce Bawer, Ron Caldwell, Larry Chua, Jesse Green, Larry Gross, Craig G. Harris, Craig Hickman, Christopher J. Hogan, Tony Kushner, Michael Lassell, Michael Lowenthal, Vestal McIntyre, Lawrence Mass, Rondo Mieczkowski, Mitzel, John Preston, Charlie Shively, Andrew Sullivan, Scott Tucker, John Weir, Reed Woodhouse

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About the Author:

Michael Bronski is the author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility, as well as the editor of Flashpoint: Gay Male Sexual Writing. He has written extensively on film, books, theater, sex, AIDS, and gay male culture for The Los Angeles Times, Fag Rag, The Village Voice, Gay Community News, Cineaste, The Boston Globe, Radical America, Z Magazine, and numerous anthologies. His Gay and Lesbian Culture is forthcoming from Chelsea House, and he is currently working on a book which examines gay influences on mainstream culture. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From Library Journal:

In assembling this anthology of 25 essays, speeches, and performance pieces, cultural critic/writer/activist Bronski rejects the notion of a single gay perspective by including work from such disparate voices as Bruce Bawer ("Notes on Stonewall"), Andrew Sullivan ("The Politics of Homosexuality"), Tony Kushner ("On Pretentiousness"), John Preston ("What You Learn After Thirty Years of S/M"), Lawrence Mass ("Musical Closets"), and Jesse Green ("The Men from the Boys"). Passionately and provocatively arguing their positions, the contributors investigate aspects of politics, sex, literature, AIDS, and identity: their points of view juxtaposed to create a lively dialog in which the participants frequently agree to disagree. Combining original pieces with previously published works drawn from sources like the New Republic, Out magazine, and Wrestling with the Angel (Riverhead: Putnam, 1995), this anthology contains writing of a uniformly high quality. The compilation of so many leading contemporary queer thinkers makes this an important addition to most public and academic collections.?Jim Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L.
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