Hitting Hard: Michelangelo Signorile on George W. Bush, Mary Cheney, Gay Marriage, Tom Cruise, the Christian Right and Sexual Hypocrisy in America by Michelangelo Signorile  (2)
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Michelangelo Signorile was an outspoken advocate of gay culture whose brush with mortality after engaging in risky sex changed his outlook on life. In Life Outside, Signorile, a columnist for Out magazine, explores the changing lifestyles and mores of gay men through interviewing and surveying hundreds of gays--in the cities, in the country, and everywhere in between. In addition, he provides a fascinating history of gay culture, from the closeted '50s, when most homosexuals found sexual release by "servicing" straight men, through the '70s and '80s, when physical beauty and promiscuity became the hallmarks of gay life.
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A columnist for Out magazine, Signorile (Queer in America, LJ 6/1/93) here urges gay men to shun what he calls the "cult of masculinity" that has been embraced by many gay men, particularly in the largest urban areas. In the first section?the best part of the book?Signorile describes the cult, traces its origins from shortly after Stonewall, describes the "circuit parties" firsthand, and documents the rampant use of steroids and other drugs among cultists. In Part 2, he posits recent trends toward the "deghettoization" and "deurbanization" of homosexuality, a move toward "postmodern monogamy," and a breakdown in the stereotype of the lonely old queen. Unfortunately, Signorile offers little reliable evidence for these trends and relies instead on data from an informal, unscientifically selected sample of several hundred men who are quoted or paraphrased at length. Also, many chapters read like expanded columns, good in themselves but not woven into an entirely cohesive argument. Overall, this is a good, readable book that could and should have been better. Recommended for larger collections.?Robert W. Melton, Univ. of Kansas Libs., Lawrence
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Michelangelo Signorile was an outspoken advocate of gay culture whose brush with mortality after engaging in risky sex changed his outlook on life. In Life Outside, Signorile, a columnist for Out magazine, explores the changing lifestyles and mores of gay men through interviewing and surveying hundreds of gays--in the cities, in the country, and everywhere in between. In addition, he provides a fascinating history of gay culture, from the closeted '50s, when most homosexuals found sexual release by "servicing" straight men, through the '70s and '80s, when physical beauty and promiscuity became the hallmarks of gay life.
From Library Journal
A columnist for Out magazine, Signorile (Queer in America, LJ 6/1/93) here urges gay men to shun what he calls the "cult of masculinity" that has been embraced by many gay men, particularly in the largest urban areas. In the first section?the best part of the book?Signorile describes the cult, traces its origins from shortly after Stonewall, describes the "circuit parties" firsthand, and documents the rampant use of steroids and other drugs among cultists. In Part 2, he posits recent trends toward the "deghettoization" and "deurbanization" of homosexuality, a move toward "postmodern monogamy," and a breakdown in the stereotype of the lonely old queen. Unfortunately, Signorile offers little reliable evidence for these trends and relies instead on data from an informal, unscientifically selected sample of several hundred men who are quoted or paraphrased at length. Also, many chapters read like expanded columns, good in themselves but not woven into an entirely cohesive argument. Overall, this is a good, readable book that could and should have been better. Recommended for larger collections.?Robert W. Melton, Univ. of Kansas Libs., Lawrence
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Somewhere between the gays-in-the-military issue and the first discussions in the halls of Congress of same-sex marriage in early 1996, I began to receive hundreds of letters and E-mails from gay men seeking advice-or just sharing their sorrows-about problems confronting them, issues for which the president or Congress could be of little to no avail. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban gay world, lonely old queen, great many gay men, commercial sexual culture, gay sexual culture, urban gay scene, urban gay ghettos, gay psychotherapists, many young gay men, negotiated safety, circuit queen, sex outside the relationship, gay men today, younger gay men, circuit parties, circuit men, sexual monogamy, unprotected oral sex, older gay men, circuit events, physical paradigms, gay male community, circuit party, steroid users, most gay men Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York,
Somewhere between the gays-in-the-military issue and the first discussions in the halls of Congress of same-sex marriage in early 1996, I began to receive hundreds of letters and E-mails from gay men seeking advice-or just sharing their sorrows-about problems confronting them, issues for which the president or Congress could be of little to no avail. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban gay world, lonely old queen, great many gay men, commercial sexual culture, gay sexual culture, urban gay scene, urban gay ghettos, gay psychotherapists, many young gay men, negotiated safety, circuit queen, sex outside the relationship, gay men today, younger gay men, circuit parties, circuit men, sexual monogamy, unprotected oral sex, older gay men, circuit events, physical paradigms, gay male community, circuit party, steroid users, most gay men Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York,