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(3) | Keine | Gay is a phase - but not in the sense that your parents might have thought. Gay is part of a cultural, social and political movement. When Gay is no more, that will mark the beginning of the end of heterosexuality too. Internationally acclaimed writer Bert Archer offers us a world where sexual identity no longer defines us. Examining a wealth of cultural, social and political history, as well as his own sexual past and present, Archer shows us where sexual identity is heading - all lables are back in the closet. Welcome to a new world without gender stereotypes.… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Dykes on Bikes thrummed slowly down Market Street last Sunday past the curbside perch of a 6-year-old girl. The first grader, who recently learned to ride a bicycle without training wheels, was fascinated by the squadrons of Harleys and Hondas that launched San Francisco's 27th annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade. Out-of-towners must have been amused, or scandalised, or both, at the costumery. Miles of leather. Two bridal gowns. One torso clothed in blue paint. Nighties. A tuxedo. Cowboy chaps. Creative tattoos. Bare breasts. Bare skulls. Bare buttocks. It wasn't Kansas. The little girl from San Francisco was staring. 'Mommy,' she said. 'They're not wearing helmets!'
— Editorial, San Francisco Examiner, July 6, 1997 We continue to confuse each other into more complicated, less easy, truer understandings.
— Christopher Bram, 'Slow Learners', 1997 Who is more contemptible than he who scorns knowledge of himself?
— John of Salisbury, 1159 Some people in the community talk as if there's no choice involved, I'm gay and that's it and I'm just being carried along in this great river of emotion and sexuality by no volition of my own. Tha'ts bullshit. That's complete bullshit.
— Patricial Nell Warren, The Front Runner, in an interview with the author Some men see things as they are and say Why? I see things that never were and say Why Not?
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. This book is dedicated to David Mazerolle, who'll never amount to anything. And to David Gershater, who, just at the last moment, did. | |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf Englisch (4)▾Buchbeschreibungen Gay is a phase - but not in the sense that your parents might have thought. Gay is part of a cultural, social and political movement. When Gay is no more, that will mark the beginning of the end of heterosexuality too. Internationally acclaimed writer Bert Archer offers us a world where sexual identity no longer defines us. Examining a wealth of cultural, social and political history, as well as his own sexual past and present, Archer shows us where sexual identity is heading - all lables are back in the closet. Welcome to a new world without gender stereotypes. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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(1) The actual back cover of The End of Gay promises an argument promoting the demotion of sex to but one aspect of a rich tapestry of life and, with its demotion, a loosening of tensions and boundaries, and an increase in general happiness. That would have been a great book to read, but unfortunately that's not the book Archer has written. The End of Gay, rather, promotes a hyper-sexual life. Archer wants humans to have sex all the time, with everyone, everywhere like bonobo monkeys.
(2) Furthermore, Archer's purely sexual treatment of sexual orientation focuses on the varied spectrum of sexuality that people experience in real practice (old hat) and mocks those who he sees as trapped by gender. His argument is only able to do this by conveniently avoiding any serious engagement with issues of power - the field within which gender games are played, and within which homosexuality has been (and remains) politicised. Archer recognises issues of gender in passing, but his argument doesn't engage with its central role.
(3) Finally, Archer wants to wish away the prison of gay collective identity, arguing that it restricts his sexual practice: other people with whom he would like to have sex won't do so because of societal norms. But it slowly becomes clear, through what he says and doesn't say, that Archer's problem is with his inclusion among an identity group. He doesn't like the label 'gay' and hates 'queer' even more. It's not that these labels limit the opportunity for others to allow themselves to have sex with him, but that Archer does not want to have to identify as a member of an oppressed group in order for that to happen. This is a book written by an individualist, with an almost Ayn Rand-ian perspective that takes everything for the individual. In many ways, it could only be written by a person of privilege, incapable of exerting themself in a common struggle for group rights. Wouldn't it be easier if the whole mess would just go away on its own, without any effort at all? Wouldn't life be great, if it were full of privilege, without having to associate, organise and fight? ( )