Why Are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire...

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Why Are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots?

Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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AK Press
03 May 2012

Society & Social Sciences; Gay & Lesbian studies

Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's a quest for the perfect clothes or implants for the perfect body. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation? Challenging not the just the violence of straight homophobia but the hypocrisy of mainstream gay norms that say the only way to stay safe is to act straight. Sycamore reinvokes the anger, flamboyance and subversion once thriving in gay subcultures in order to explore the perils of assimilation and call for accountability and provide a vision for change.

Edited by: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Imprint: AK Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 347g
ISBN: 9781849350884
ISBN 10: 1849350884
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 03 May 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Called startlingly bold and provocative by Howard Zinn, described as a cross between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda by the Austin Chronicle, and named one of Utne Reader's Visionaries in 2008, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is undoubtedly one of America's most outrageous queer critics. She is the author of two novels, including, most recently, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights 2008), and the editor of four nonfiction anthologies, including Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal 2007) and That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2004; expanded second edition 2008). Her writing appears regularly in a variety of publications, including the San Francisco Bay Guardian, AlterNet, Bitch, Utne Reader, Bookslut, Lambda Book Report, The Gay and Lesbian Review, and The Stranger. She is the reviews editor at the feminist magazine Make/shift, and has penned a monthly column in Maximumrocknroll for five years. She's gone on five extensive cross-country book tours, and guest-lectured at numerous universities, from Yale to Evergreen, UCLA to McGill.