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• Pt.
• 1. B+ could try harder. Diary of a scandal
• History of an error
• pt.
• 2. American falsettos. Gay identity and its discontents
• Homosexuality's closet
• What's gayer than gay?
• The queen is not dead
• pt.
• 3. Why are the drag queens laughing?. Culture and genre
• The passion of the Crawford
• Suffering in quotation marks
• The beauty and the camp
• pt.
• 4. Mommie queerest. Gay family romance
• Men act, women appear
• The sexual politics of genre
• Tragedy into melodrama
• pt.
• 5. Bitch baskets. Gay femininity
• Gender and genre
• The meaning of style
• Irony and misogyny
• pt.
• 6. What is gay culture? Judy Garland versus identity art
• Culture versus subculture
• Queer forever.

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 stereotype--ridiculously 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 the gay press, How To Be Gay traces gay men's cultural difference to the social meaning of style. Far from being deterred by stereotypes, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights, impertinence, and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the heterosexual mainstream.
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• Diary of a scandal
• History of an error
• Gay identity and its discontents
• Homosexuality's closet
• What's gayer than gay?
• The queen is not dead
• Culture and genre
• The passion of the Crawford
• Suffering in quotation marks
• The beauty and the camp
• Gay family romance
• Men act, women appear
• The sexual politics of genre
• Tragedy into melodrama
• Gay femininity
• Gender and genre
• The meaning of style
• Irony and misogyny
• Judy Garland versus identity art
• Culture versus subculture
• Queer forever.

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 stereotype--ridiculously 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 the gay press, How To Be Gay traces gay men's cultural difference to the social meaning of style. Far from being deterred by stereotypes, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights, impertinence, and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the heterosexual mainstream.
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• Introduction Collecting and Understanding Gay Life Stories The Coming-Out Stories of the Old Cohort The Coming-Out Stories of the Middle Cohort The Coming-Out Stories of the Young Cohort The 'Scene' Community Life Couple Relationships Friends and Family Life as an Old Gay Man Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Interview Schedule
• Appendix 2: The Age Cohorts and the Interviewees.
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This ground-breaking study focuses on the lived experiences of gay men who were born during the twentieth century. Spanning an era when homosexuality was illegal through the less repressed but no less difficult eras of gay liberation and the HIV-AIDS epidemic, an understanding of what it is to be gay is shown to be historically contingent. The men's personal stories include their experiences of being closeted in the years following World War II and the Cold War, the exuberance, and, for some, personally challenging times of gay liberation and the disco culture of the 1970s, to a time of fear and grief during the HIV-AIDS epidemic. Through a series of interviews, this book illustrates the significant shifts in sexual attitudes, culture and tolerance during a most turbulent era for homosexual men.
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Beau, a pianist expat living in London, meets Rufus, an eccentric young lawyer, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution. After a life spent recovering from the disappointment and hurt of loving men in a world that refused to allow it, Beau is determined to keep his expectations low with Rufus. But Rufus comes from a new generation of gay men who believe happiness is as much their right as anyone else's, and what Beau assumed would be just another fling grows into one of the most surprising and defining relationships of his life. A remarkably moving, brilliantly funny love story, Gently Down the Stream is the latest play from acclaimed playwright Martin Sherman. The play reflects the triumphs and heartbreaks of the entire length of the gay rights movement, celebrating and mourning the ghosts of the men and women who led the way for equality, marriage and the right to dream. It received its world premiere at the Public Theatre, New York, on 14 March 2017 in a production starring Tony-award winner Harvey Fierstein.
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"Simon Avend, a South African living in Australia, can be unrully. He often sets out to exotic destinations, indulging his desires in places like Bali, Istanbul, Tokyo, and the Wild Coast. But along the way unsettling memories arise, of people and also places, especially the cattle farm in the Eastern Cape where he grew up. He approaches a therapist to help him make sense of his past, a process that leads them both on a journey of discovery."--Back cover.

Beau, a pianist expat living in London, meets Rufus, an eccentric young lawyer, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution. After a life spent recovering from the disappointment and hurt of loving men in a world that refused to allow it, Beau is determined to keep his expectations low with Rufus. But Rufus comes from a new generation of gay men who believe happiness is as much their right as anyone else's, and what Beau assumed would be just another fling grows into one of the most surprising and defining relationships of his life. A remarkably moving, brilliantly funny love story, Gently Down the Stream is the latest play from acclaimed playwright Martin Sherman. The play reflects the triumphs and heartbreaks of the entire length of the gay rights movement, celebrating and mourning the ghosts of the men and women who led the way for equality, marriage and the right to dream. It received its world premiere at the Public Theatre, New York, on 14 March 2017 in a production starring Tony-award winner Harvey Fierstein.
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Based on Thomas Mann's classic, but treading new territory all its own, Death in Venice, California is a darkly comic tale of yearning, its rewards and its costs. Yearning is often considered a passive thing. But this ignores the molten core of havoc that lies within, making it the most hair-trigger of states. Death in Venice, California, takes the burning concept of yearning-as-motivator, jams it into the craw of a staid, entitled central character, and sets him loose, unmoored, in the modern world. Jameson Frame, an educated, even revered, middle-aged man of letters, flees the cold canyons of Manhattan for Venice, California, where he is soon surrounded by all that this Bedouin village has to offer: wiccans, vegans, transients, artists, drummers, muscle men, skateboarders, plastic surgeons, pornographers, tarot card readers and ghouls. And an arrestingly beautiful young man named Chase, the subject and object of his yearning. From there, Frame enters into a spiral of liberation, exultation, and, ultimately, destruction. And, as Frame explores his terra incognita, he takes his reader with him on his wild journey of passion, ecstasy, chaos, and consumption, all exploring the nature of self against the modern landscape, all set to the rhythm of the human heartbeat.

• Placeres, heridas y rompecabezas : una nota a la dramática de Alfonso Álvarez Bañuelos / Hugo Salcedo
• Los placeres y los días : obra en un acto
• Hasta abrirse en la piel
• Cómo podría vivir sin ti : texto dramático en un acto
• Del amor y la danza : obra en un acto para cuatro actores bailarines.

• Acknowledgments.
• 1. Fixing or Fracturing Identities
• 2. The Importance of Sexual Identities in a Changing World
• 3. Reconciling Identities
• 4. Performing Identities
• 5. Identities Embodied
• 6. Relational Identities
• 7. The Future of (Gay Male) Identities.
• Appendix 1: Methodology Used for the Research.
• Appendix 2: Profiles of the Men Interviewed. Bibliography.
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As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing. In a context of globalisation, mass communication and technological advances, individuals find themselves able to make lifestyle choices in new and different ways. In this increasingly confusing world, sociologists have argued that identities are in flux, and that traditional patterns of identity and intimacy are being disrupted and reshaped, with all the implications for sexual identities that this suggests. Changing Gay Male Identities draws on the powerful life stories of twenty-one gay men to explore how individuals construct and maintain their sense of self in contemporary society. The book draws upon theoretical debates on topics such as gender, performance, sex, class, camp, race and ethnicity, to explore four aspects of identity: the role of the body in who we are relationships and communities performing in everyday life reconciling different aspects of our selves (such as religion and sexuality). In Changing Gay Male Identities Andrew Cooper assesses the magnitude of these social and sexual changes. He argues that although there are many opportunities for new forms of identity in a changing world, the possibilities can be significantly constrained, and that this has major implications for the freedoms and choices of individuals in contemporary societies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, sexuality studies, gender studies, and GLBTQ studies.
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"Joseph Delgado has a wild tongue and a lightning-bright imagination. Unlike many young poets, he does not cage his poems in nostalgia. In this splendid collection bones break, liquor and semen salt the skin, sand and sickness erode the heart. Delgado reminds us familial and erotic bonds, rendered in vivid and gritty language, do not always redeem. Queer sex allows Delgado to bravely detail the interplay between masculinity and poverty. An unrelenting physicality abounds. ... Delgado braids the sting of the desert and the ache of emotional turmoil into lyrics that bristle with rain and blood. ...[description by] Eduardo C. Corral."--Page 4 of cover.