Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories by Guter, Bob

Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781560234562)

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Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories by Guter, Bob

Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories

$200.00
Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories by Guter, Bob

Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man!

Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories reverberates with the sound of cripgay voices rising to be heard above the din of indifference and bias, oppression and ignorance. This unique collection of compelling first-person narratives is at once assertive, bold, and groundbreaking, filled with charactersand character. Through the intimacy of one-on-one storytelling, gay men with mobility and neuromuscular disorders, spinal cord injury, deafness, blindness, and AIDS, fight isolation from societyand each otherto establish a public identity and a common culture.

Queer Crips features more than 30 first-hand accounts from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the reality of the everyday struggle disabled gay men face in a culture obsessed with conformist good looks. Themes include rejection, love, sex, dating rituals, gaycrip married life, and the profound difference between growing up queer and disabled, and suffering a life-altering injury or illness in adulthood. Co-edited by Bob Guter, creator and editor of the webzine BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices, the book includes:
  • two performance pieces from acclaimed author and actor Greg Walloch
  • poetry from Chris Hewitt, Joel S. Riche, Raymond Luczak, Mark Moody, and co-editor John Killacky
  • essays from BENT contributors Blaine Waterman, Raymond J. Aguilera, Danny Kodmur, Thomas Metz, Max Verga, and Eli Clare
  • interviews with community activist Gordon Elkins and Alan Sable, one of the first self-identified gay psychotherapists in the United States
  • and much more!

Queer Crips is a forum for neglected cripgay voices speaking words that are candid, edgy, bold, dreamy, challenging, and sexy. The book is essential reading for academics and students working in lesbian and gay studies, and disability studies, and for anyone who's ever visited the place where queerness and disability meet.



Author: Bob Guter,John R. Killacky
ISBN-10: 1560234563
ISBN-13: 9781560234562
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2003
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.54w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2005 pg. 65

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