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Journeys Toward a Sexual Self
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 1998
On Sale: May 1, 1998
244 pages
ISBN: 0374525420
EAN: 9780374525422
Kindle: B00ALBR3S0
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Non-Fiction
This is the provocative question posed by Frank Browning in
a A Queer Geography. In this contemporary classic of gay
literature, now with a revised first chapter, Browning shows
us that gay culture is more a fabrication of American
identity politics than of actual sexual desire. He explores
the gay psyche as he travels from the streets of Brooklyn to
the hill of Kentucky, from France to the Bay of Naples. As
he does so, he argues that roots of gay identity by showing
how the Puritan compact led to the backroom bawdy house, how
being "born again" is reenacted as "coming out," and how gay
men's search for their own identity profoundly echoes
American's relentless quest for a national identity of its
own. In the end, he demonstrates that while homosexuality
may be universal, "gay identity" is a twentieth-century
creation already being challenged.
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