"You Can Tell Just By Looking": And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People (Myths Made in America)

Bronski, Michael, Pellegrini, Ann, Amico, Michael

ISBN 10: 0807042455 / ISBN 13: 9780807042458

Edité par Beacon Press (edition First Edition), 2013

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• Titre: "You Can Tell Just By Looking": And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People (Myths Made in America)
• Éditeur: Beacon Press (edition First Edition)
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0807042455
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780807042458
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Fair

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Synopsis

2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT Nonfiction

Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives
 
In “You Can Tell Just by Looking” three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Myths, such as “All Religions Condemn Homosexuality” and “Transgender People Are Mentally Ill,” have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Others, such as “Homosexuals Are Born That Way,” have been embraced by LGBT communities and their allies. In discussing and dispelling these myths—including gay-positive ones—the authors challenge readers to question their own beliefs and to grapple with the complexities of what it means to be queer in the broadest social, political, and cultural sense.

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Bronski (Cambridge, Massachusetts) has written extensively on LGBT issues for four decades. He is the author of several award-winning books, including most recently A Queer History of the United States. He is Professor of the Practice in Activism and Media in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.

Ann Pellegrini (New York, New York) is professor of performance studies and religious studies at New York University, where she also directs NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. She has written extensively about religion, sexuality, and US public life. Her publications include Performance Anxieties and the coauthored book Love the Sin.
 
Michael Amico (New Haven, Connecticut) is a PhD candidate in American studies at Yale University, and is writing a history of the love between two men in the Civil War. He has written for LGBT youth publications, such as Young Gay America, and provided political analysis for the Boston Phoenix and other venues.