How to be gay
Halperin, David M. [1952-]
How to be gay - Cambridge, MA The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2014 - viii, 549 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780674283992 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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.
0674283996
Gay men
Male homosexuality
306.7662
How to be gay - Cambridge, MA The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2014 - viii, 549 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780674283992 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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.
0674283996
Gay men
Male homosexuality
306.7662