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Edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo
First published in 1998, Q & A: Homosexual in Asian America, edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, became a canonical work in Asian American studies and queer studies. This recent edition of Q & A is neither a sequel nor an update, but an entirely new work borne out of the gradual political and cultural advances of the queer experiences of Asian North American communities.
The artists, activists, collective organizers, creative writers, poets, scholars, and visual artists that contribute to this exciting new volume produce visible the complicated intertwining of sexuality with race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Sections address activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism and diaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilience.
The visual art, autobiographical writings, poetry, scholarly essays, meditations, and analyses of histories and popular culture in the new Q & A Visibility. It’s one of the most essential needs of the queer community. To be understood, to be accepted, the LGBTQIA+ community needs first to be seen. This has meant that centuries of authors writing about the experiences, love, and pain of the homosexual community have been crucial in making progress towards a radical acceptance. From the delicate art shape of the semi-autobiographical novel — a life story veiled behind fictional names and twists — to the roar of poetry to a deep dive into the history that has too often been erased and purged, gender non-conforming literature has helped to challenge, change position, and shape generations of readers. As a pansexual, demisexual cis woman on my way into another Pride Month, researching and crafting this list was a singular bliss. I have many books to place on hold at my local library. Many stories to encounter. Many histories to educate myself on. Because homosexual texts help to increase our noticeability to the “outside” world, but they also increase internal visibility and acknowledgment. Today, transphobia is rampant among the queer community, and there are still plenty of issues (biphobia, acephobia), histories, and experiences that the best-educated lgbtq+ pers In a foreword to his sprawling, insightful examination of the challenges faced by three generations of gay men in the U.S., Odets writes that aside from his first intended audience—gay men—he considered the interests of two other groups: women, whose “insight and compassion” they contribute to gay men’s lives “cannot be overstated”; and fellow psychotherapists. As a straight male, I would enjoy Odets to realize how valuable this book was to me as adv. His critique of the “socially manufactured ‘male’ identity,” which, he writes, has “long baffled women,” should invite any interested reader to consider how they have been shaped or otherwise impacted by male gender constructs, which can lead men toward inauthentic overcompensation or emotional repression, thus failing to understand their true selves and express themselves to others. He writes about the various ways that gay men acquire been socialized in a “heterosexist” world, absorbing shame or simply by comprehending themselves in limited terms as a “homosexual,” rather than fully explore their “an entire internal life of feeling” as a male lover man. Here, the straight male reader gains an opportunity to measure his own ability to relate t Gay and Lesbian Studies is by nature cross-disciplinary, covering a wide range of intellectual bases: literature, history, religion, psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, medicine, law, fine arts, and others. Resources in this subject area may be found in nearly every division of the Research Libraries. This reference offers multiple trajectories into this richly varied field. Despite the presence of massive numbers of homosexuals in New York City and other urban centers in the United States and throughout the world, their history has often been neglected or marginalized, a testimony to the inhibiting factors of legal restrictions on certain forms of sexual conduct, the lack of organization among homosexual men and lesbians, and the unwillingness of the larger society to acknowledge the value and merit of different forms of erotic and affectional expression. These difficulties notwithstanding, certain individuals in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Western societies, such as Karl Ulrichs and Magnus Hirschfeld in Germany and Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds in Britain, began to conceive of themselves as belonging to a discrete group p Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, Writing Desire examines the changing identity of same-sex attracted men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar and psychoanalyst Bertram J. Cohler has carefully selected a diverse group of ten men, including historians, activists, journalists, poets, production artists, and bloggers, whose life writing evokes the evolution of gay being in twentieth-century America.
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By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, Cohler illustrates the social transformations that these men helped shape. Among Cohler's diverse subjects is Alan Helms, whose journey from Indiana to Recent York's gay society represents the passage of men who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, when homosexuality was considered a hidden "disease." The liberating effects of Stonewall's aftermath are chronicled in the life of Arnie Kantrowitz, the prototypical activist for gay rights in the 1970s and the founder the Lgbtq+ and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation. The artistic works of Tim Miller and Mark Doty evoke deficit and shock during of the early stages of the AIDS epidemic in the 198