Queer crips : disabled gay men and their stories / / Bob Guter, John R. Killacky, editors

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Harrington Park Press, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.38/9664
• Soggetto topico: Gay men; Gay people with disabilities
• Altri autori: GuterBob KillackyJohn R
• Note generali: First published 2004 by Harrington Park Press.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Two Performance Pieces; Hustlers: A Buyer's Guide; Sticks and Stones; Disability Made Me Do It, or Modeling for the Cause; Nasty Habits; Piano Bar; But I Don't Like You Like That; Working It Out; Boy Scout of America; Rolling On (from Chapter 3); Careening Toward Kensho: Ruminations on Disability and Community; Repetitions; How to Find Love with a Fetishist; Loving You Loving Me; A Meeting with George Dureau; Face Value: Text for a Performance Piece ; Acting for Others, Acting for MyselfA Wedding Celebration; My Dictionary on Dicks; Four Poems; On Being (Un)Representative; Alone in the Crowd; Love Is All Around: My Life As a Married Crip; The Boy I Used to Be; Homo on the Range; Dancing Toward the Light; Three Poems; Becoming Daddy's Boy; The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues (Chapter 6); Night Murmurs; Beginner's Sex; Queer Ducks: An Unlikely Romance; It's All in the Eye: A Deaf Gay Man Remembers His Icons; Gawking, Gaping, Staring; Destination Bent: The Story Behind a Cyber Community for Gay Men with Disabilities
• Sommario/riassunto: Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man! Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories reverberates with the sound of ?cripgay? voices rising to be heard above the din of indifference and bias, oppression and ignorance. This unique collection of compelling first-person narratives is at once assertive, bold, and groundbreaking, filled with characters?and character. Through the intimacy of one-on-one storytelling, gay men with mobility and neuromuscular disorders, spinal cord injury, deafness, blindness, and AIDS, fight isolation from society?and each other?to establis
• Titolo autorizzato: Queer crips
• ISBN: 1-56023-457-1; 1-315-78383-5; 1-317-71269-2; 1-317-71270-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790948203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Haworth gay & lesbian studies.