Craig Loftin:
Originally published in 1987, this collection of essays from scholars, journalists, and gay activists considers the construction of gay identity in the context of the modern gay rights movement. Running throughout the essays is the benefits and perils of a distinct gay culture. Thompson argues that despite the gay rights movement's emphasis on integration into heterosexual society, gays in fact distinguish themselves profoundly from straight society at primarily a spiritual (rather than sexual) level), and that gay people and straight people encounter and understand the world in profoundly different ways.
Contributors include Thompson, Michael Bronski, Will Roscoe, Jim Kepner, Harry Hay, and Dennis Altman.
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