LEADER 03930nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910957602103321 005 20250912175059.0 010 $a9780674070868 010 $a0674070860 010 $a9780674067516 010 $a0674067517 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067516 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241209 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24437915 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720856 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11417930 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720856 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10669381 035 $a(PQKB)11040699 035 $a(DE-B1597)178004 035 $a(OCoLC)807789456 035 $a(OCoLC)979742738 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067516 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301125 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593877 035 $a(OCoLC)923118568 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301125 035 $a(Perlego)1133420 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241209 100 $a20120309d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow to be gay /$fDavid M. Halperin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 549 p. )$cill 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 08$a9780674283992 311 08$a0674283996 311 08$a9780674066793 311 08$a0674066790 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPART ONE: B+ Could Try Harder --$tPART TWO: American Falsettos --$tPART THREE: Why Are the Drag Queens Laughing? --$tPART FOUR: Mommie Queerest --$tPART FIVE: Bitch Baskets --$tPART SIX: What Is Gay Culture? --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aNo one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea, they will say, is just a stereotype-ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Inspired by the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that Halperin taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and the gay press, How To Be Gay traces gay men's cultural difference to the social meaning of style. Far from being deterred by stereotypes, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights, impertinence, and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the heterosexual mainstream. 606 $aGay men 606 $aGay people 606 $aGay culture$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0000487 606 $aLGBTQ+ culture$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0001831 606 $aLGBTQ+ people$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0000915 615 0$aGay men. 615 0$aGay people. 615 7$aGay culture. 615 7$aLGBTQ+ culture. 615 7$aLGBTQ+ people 676 $a306.76/62 700 $aHalperin$b David M.$f1952-$0174544 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910957602103321 996 $aHow to be gay$94366386 997 $aUNINA