Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
- 232 pages
- English
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Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
About this book
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into "straight-acting dudes hangin' out, " what are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that challenges the assimilationist norms of a corporate-cozy lifestyle?
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? challenges not just the violence of straight homophobia but the hypocrisy of mainstream gay norms that say the only way to stay safe is to act straight: get married, join the military, adopt kids! Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reinvokes the anger, flamboyance, and subversion once thriving in gay subcultures in order to create something dangerous and lovely: an exploration of the perils of assimilation; a call for accountability; a vision for change. A sassy and splintering emergency intervention!
Called "startlingly bold and provocative" by Howard Zinn, and described as "a cross between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda" by The Austin Chronicle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is undoubtedly one of America's most outspoken queer critics. She is the author of two novels, including, most recently, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, and is the editor of four nonfiction anthologies, including Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.
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Table of contents
- Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
- Fierce.net: Imagining a Faggotty Web
- Going from Zero to Sexy on High-Caloric Queer Overdrive
- Trans/Nationally Femme: Notes on Neoliberal Economic Regimes, Security States, and My Life as a Brown Immigrant Fag
- Levity and Gravity
- Death by Masculinity
- Without a Face
- Fucking with Fucking Online: Advocating for Indiscriminate Promiscuity
- Difficult Conversations
- Penis is Important for That
- Glass Blowing
- Appearances and All That
- Girls
- Straightening the Shawl
- The Unlikely Barebacker
- Rehab for the Unrepentant
- I’ll Tell You What I Want, What I Really Really Want: Homolove and Accountability
- It Gets Better?
- The Soul of Our Work
- Dirt Story
- Generations
- Prisons and Closets
- A Rock and a Bird
- Slow Boil: AIDS and the Remnants of Time
- Excelsior
- My Fear, The Forces Beneath
- Cell Block 6
- Not Till the Earth Falls into the Sun
- Dancing with White Boys
- Something Resembling Power
- Rich Man’s War, Poor (Gay) Man’s Fight
- Contributors
- About the Editor
- Advance Praise for Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
- Acknowledgements
- Support AK Press!