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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101560234563

ISBN-139781560234562

eBay Product ID (ePID)2435714

Product Key Features

Number of Pages230 Pages

Publication NameQueer Crips : Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectPain Medicine, People with Disabilities, Sociology / General, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Medical

AuthorJohn R. Killacky, Bob Guter

SeriesHaworth Gay and Lesbian Studies

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight19.2 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2002-154812

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.38/9664

Table Of ContentAbout 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 Myself A Wedding Celebration My Dictionary on Dicks Four Poems On Being (Un)Representative: In Memory of Barbara and Daniel 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

SynopsisGet 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 establish a public identity and a common culture. Queer Crips features more than 30 first-hand accounts from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the reality of the everyday struggle disabled gay men face in a culture obsessed with conformist good looks. Themes include rejection, love, sex, dating rituals, gaycrip married life, and the profound difference between growing up queer and disabled, and suffering a life-altering injury or illness in adulthood. Co-edited by Bob Guter, creator and editor of the webzine BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices, the book includes: two performance pieces from acclaimed author and actor Greg Walloch poetry from Chris Hewitt, Joel S. Riche, Raymond Luczak, Mark Moody, and co-editor John Killacky essays from BENT contributors Blaine Waterman, Raymond J. Aguilera, Danny Kodmur, Thomas Metz, Max Verga, and Eli Clare interviews with community activist Gordon Elkins and Alan Sable, one of the first self-identified gay psychotherapists in the United States and much more Queer Crips is a forum for neglected cripgay voices speaking words that are candid, edgy, bold, dreamy, challenging, and sexy. The book is essential reading for academics and students working in lesbian and gay studies, and disability studies, and for anyone who's ever visited the place where queerness and disability meet., 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 charactersand 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 societyand each otherto establish a public identity and a common culture. Queer Crips features more than 30 first-hand accounts from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the reality of the everyday struggle disabled gay men face in a culture obsessed with conformist good looks. Themes include rejection, love, sex, dating rituals, gaycrip married life, and the profound difference between growing up queer and disabled, and suffering a life-altering injury or illness in adulthood. Co-edited by Bob Guter, creator and editor of the webzine BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices, the book includes: two performance pieces from acclaimed author and actor Greg Walloch poetry from Chris Hewitt, Joel S. Riche, Raymond Luczak, Mark Moody, and co-editor John Killacky essays from BENT contributors Blaine Waterman, Raymond J. Aguilera, Danny Kodmur, Thomas Metz, Max Verga, and Eli Clare interviews with community activist Gordon Elkins and Alan Sable, one of the first self-identified gay psychotherapists in the United States and much more! Queer Crips is a forum for neglected cripgay voices speaking words that are candid, edgy, bold, dreamy, challenging, and sexy. The book is essential reading for academics and students working in lesbian and gay studies, and disability studies, and for anyone who's ever visited the place where queerness and disability meet., 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 establish a public identity and a common culture. Queer Crips features more than 30 first-hand accounts from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the reality of the everyday struggle disabled gay men face in a culture obsessed with conformist good looks. Themes include rejection, love, sex, dating rituals, gaycrip married life, and the profound difference between growing up queer and disabled, and suffering a life-altering injury or illness in adulthood. Co-edited by Bob Guter, creator and editor of the webzine BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices, the book includes: two performance pieces from acclaimed author and actor Greg Walloch poetry from Chris Hewitt, Joel S. Riche, Raymond Luczak, Mark Moody, and co-editor John Killacky essays from BENT contributors Blaine Waterman, Raymond J. Aguilera, Danny Kodmur, Thomas Metz, Max Verga, and Eli Clare interviews with community activist Gordon Elkins and Alan Sable, one of the first self-identified gay psychotherapists in the United States and much more! Queer Crips is a forum for neglected cripgay voices speaking words that are candid, edgy, bold, dreamy, challenging, and sexy. The book is essential reading for academics and students working in lesbian and gay studies, and disability studies, and for anyone who's ever visited the place where queerness and disability meet.

LC Classification NumberHQ76.Q423 2003