For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which produces L.A.'s queer pride festival; the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, a 37-year-old multi-site organization; and Bienestar, an HIV services organization for gay Latinos. Ward documents the evolution of these organizations, including class and race conflicts within them, but she especially focuses on the misuses of diversity culture.
Respectably Queer reveals how neoliberal ideas about difference are becoming embedded in the...
For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which...
For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which produces L.A.'s queer pride festival; the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, a 37-year-old multi-site organization; and Bienestar, an HIV services organization for gay Latinos. Ward documents the evolution of these organizations, including class and race conflicts within them, but she especially focuses on the misuses of diversity culture.
Respectably Queer reveals how neoliberal ideas about difference are becoming embedded in the...
For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which...
THE MOSAIC ARTIST tells the story of the break up of a family and the unorthodox ways in which two siblings hold themselves and others together in order to live their lives in the aftermath of messy divorce. Lives that had been torn apart and carefully reconstructed in the past are on the verge of shattering again, but Jack's decision to leave his children the house just might help them all remake their lives one more time.
THE MOSAIC ARTIST tells the story of the break up of a family and the unorthodox ways in which two siblings hold themselves and others together in ord...
A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight--her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: there's fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other's penises and stick fingers up their fellow members' anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with; and,...
A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight--her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys exp...
