Isbn: 9780060187613 - life outside: the signorile report on gay men: sex, drugs, muscles, and the passages of life (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Popular>Out magazine columnist Michelangelo Signorile investigates the hot-button issues confronting gay men today.Exhaustively researched, surpassingly perceptive.--New York magazineLife Outside bravely advances a critique of the attitudes and ideologies that have shaped the gay 'scene' and merits the attention of a broad audience for its courage and informativeness.--New York Times Book ReviewA stunning expose. Gay men should be handed three things when they come out of the closet: a box of condoms, a videocassette of George Cukor's>The Women, and a copy of>Life Outside.--The AdvocateMichelangelo Signorile galvanized a generation of lesbians and gay men when he took on the closets of power in his 1992 classic>Queer in America. Now, in>Life Outside, he offers an expose of what he calls the cult of masculinity within contemporary gay male culture, while finding hope and renewal in other aspects of gay life. He reveals the origins of the current obsession in much of the gay community with an impossible physical ideal and explores the malevolent commercialization of gay sex. Life Outside also identifies another, more positive phenomenon in the gay male world. With the expansion of the gay movement, with more gays coming out--and remaining--in suburban, small-town, and rural America, the urban scene is no longer setting the standard for what it is to be gay in America. With the deghettoization and deurbanization of homosexuality, we find men who challenge long-held assumptions about being gay, relationships, and coping with growing older. With first-person accounts from men who are moving into midlife with pride and vitality, Signorile points the way for all gay men to face the passages of life with a new maturity.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Popular>Out magazine columnist Michelangelo Signorile investigates the hot-button issues confronting gay men today.Exhaustively researched, surpassingly perceptive.--New York magazineLife Outside bravely advances a critique of the attitudes and ideologies that have shaped the gay 'scene' and merits the attention of a broad audience for its courage and informativeness.--New York Times Book ReviewA stunning expose. Gay men should be handed three things when they come out of the closet: a box of condoms, a videocassette of George Cukor's>The Women, and a copy of>Life Outside.--The AdvocateMichelangelo Signorile galvanized a generation of lesbians and gay men when he took on the closets of power in his 1992 classic>Queer in America. Now, in>Life Outside, he offers an expose of what he calls the cult of masculinity within contemporary gay male culture, while finding hope and renewal in other aspects of gay life. He reveals the origins of the current obsession in much of the gay community with an impossible physical ideal and explores the malevolent commercialization of gay sex. Life Outside also identifies another, more positive phenomenon in the gay male world. With the expansion of the gay movement, with more gays coming out--and remaining--in suburban, small-town, and rural America, the urban scene is no longer setting the standard for what it is to be gay in America. With the deghettoization and deurbanization of homosexuality, we find men who challenge long-held assumptions about being gay, relationships, and coping with growing older. With first-person accounts from men who are moving into midlife with pride and vitality, Signorile points the way for all gay men to face the passages of life with a new maturity.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($25.00 price intact). Published by Harper Collins, 1997. Octavo. Book is like new very light toning. Dust jacket is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…