In a collection of essays, deaf lesbians and gay men discuss their lives, describing how they discovered their sexual identity, overcame barriers to communication in a hearing world, and created a deaf gay and lesbian culture. Original.
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Raymond Luczak (pronounced as written but with a silent "c") is the author and editor of ten books, including ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: NOTES FROM A DEAF GAY LIFE (RID Press) and MEN WITH THEIR HANDS: A NOVEL (Rebel Satori Press). His work as a poet have appeared in ST. MICHAEL'S FALL (Deaf Life Press) and THIS WAY TO THE ACORNS (Tactile Mind Press). Four of his full-length stage plays have been collected in WHISPERS OF A SAVAGE SORT AND OTHER PLAYS ABOUT THE DEAF AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (Gallaudet University Press). He edited the anthologies EYES OF DESIRE: A DEAF GAY & LESBIAN READER (Alyson) and EYES OF DESIRE 2: A DEAF GLBT READER (Handtype Press). A Midsummer Night's Press will publish his third collection of poems, MUTE, in the spring of 2010.
Luczak was raised in Ironwood, a small mining town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Number seven in a family of nine children, he lost much of his hearing due to double pneumonia at the age of seven months. After high school graduation, Luczak went on to Gallaudet University, in Washington, DC, where he earned a B.A. in English. He learned American Sign Language (ASL) and became involved with the Deaf community.
In 1988, he moved to New York City. In short order, his play SNOOTY (available in his collection WHISPERS OF A SAVAGE SORT) won first place in the New York Deaf Theater's 1990 Samuel Edwards Deaf Playwrights Competition, and his essay "Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer" won acceptance as a cover story for CHRISTOPHER STREET magazine. (The essay was expanded into his memoir ASSEMBLY REQUIRED.) His novel MEN WITH THEIR HANDS won a first-prize award from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation for Full-Length Fiction 2003 in the spring of 2004. The book has gone on to win first place in the Project: QueerLit 2006 Contest; Rebel Satori Press will publish it in December 2009. A playwright and filmmaker, Luczak now lives in Minneapolis, where he has just completed his next novel.
His web site is www.raymondluczak.com. He maintains a blog at http://deafwoofbarks.blogspot.com/ .
Luczak was raised in Ironwood, a small mining town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Number seven in a family of nine children, he lost much of his hearing due to double pneumonia at the age of seven months. After high school graduation, Luczak went on to Gallaudet University, in Washington, DC, where he earned a B.A. in English. He learned American Sign Language (ASL) and became involved with the Deaf community.
In 1988, he moved to New York City. In short order, his play SNOOTY (available in his collection WHISPERS OF A SAVAGE SORT) won first place in the New York Deaf Theater's 1990 Samuel Edwards Deaf Playwrights Competition, and his essay "Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer" won acceptance as a cover story for CHRISTOPHER STREET magazine. (The essay was expanded into his memoir ASSEMBLY REQUIRED.) His novel MEN WITH THEIR HANDS won a first-prize award from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation for Full-Length Fiction 2003 in the spring of 2004. The book has gone on to win first place in the Project: QueerLit 2006 Contest; Rebel Satori Press will publish it in December 2009. A playwright and filmmaker, Luczak now lives in Minneapolis, where he has just completed his next novel.
His web site is www.raymondluczak.com. He maintains a blog at http://deafwoofbarks.blogspot.com/ .
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This review is from: Eyes Of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader (Paperback)
Although "Eyes of Desire" is subtitled "A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader" it shouldn't be thought of as a book "only" for the deaf or homosexuals. This is a book for anyone who wants greater understanding, or just a good read. For me, it gave me some small insight on how "they" think and feel, gave faces and voices to people I hadn't thought much about, and reminded me that people have more similarities than differences. Some of the pieces are more oriented toward gay issues, some more toward those of the deaf/hearing impaired community, and some both. Some are more more explicit than others. Like any collection of works by various authors with pieces in a variety of styles, every work may not appeal to you equally, but all are worth the time.
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This was exactly what i was looking for!,
By kimberleigh christie (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eyes Of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader (Paperback)
Found this book on accident looking for a birthday present for a friend, who happens to be a Deaf lesbian! This turned out to be a great find, a really interesting book, & some insight for hearing people, gay or straight, into Deaf life & culture! A great book!
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