Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories

ISBN-13: 9781560234579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 230 str.

Bob Guter; John R. Killacky

Opis

A collection of compelling first person narratives is at once assertive, bold, and groundbreaking, filled with characters - and character. Gay men with mobility and neuromuscular disorders, spinal cord injury, deafness, blindness, and AIDs, fight society, and each other, to establish a public identity and a common culture.

Spis treści

• 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 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

O autorze

Authored by Guter, Bob; Killacky, John R