Full name: That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation

Author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Gay & Lesbian, Essays, Non Fiction, Feminism Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781932360561 9781593761950 1932360565 1593761953

As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Benjamin Shepard, and others shows what the new queer resistance looks like. Intended as a fistful of rocks to throw at the glass house of Gaylandia, the book challenges the commercialized, commoditized, and hyper objectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models. Essays include "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Gay Art Guerrillas," "Legalized Sodomy Is Political Foreplay," and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?" Similar books: Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore PoMoSexuals by Carol Queen Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde The Burning Library by Edmund White The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You by S. Bear Bergman Coventry by Rachel Cusk Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick Future Sex by Emily Witt The Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell The Other Glass Teat by Harlan Ellison Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed by Harlan Ellison Just Enough Liebling by A. J. Liebling The Adding Machine by William S. Burroughs The Essays of Leonard Michaels by Leonard Michaels Inner Workings by J. M. Coetzee How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn Table of Contents by John McPhee A Temple of Texts by William H. Gass Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee