That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation

by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Editor)

Overview

As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. What's more, queers remain under attack: Gay youth shelters can be vetoed because they might reduce property values. Trannies are out because they might offend straights. That's Revolting! offers a bracing tonic to these trends. Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting! collects timely essays such as "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Gay Art Guerrillas," and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron Or Just Plain Moronic?" by unrepentant activists like Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, and Carol Queen. This updated edition contains seven new selections that cover everything from rural, working-class youth in Massachusetts to gay life in New Orleans to the infamous Drop the Debt/Stop AIDS action in New York. This lively composite portrait of cutting-edge queer activism is a clarion call for anyone who questions the value of becoming the Stepford Homosexual.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593761950
Publisher:	Soft Skull Press, Inc.
Publication date:	05/28/2008
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	360
Sales rank:	217,188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

There's more to life than platinum: challenging the tyranny of sweatshop-produced rainbow flags and participatory patriarchy   Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore     1
Church, State, Acid Trips, the Merry-go-Round, Patriots, the Conspiracy, and Diapers
Dykes and Fags Want Everything: Dreaming with the Gay Liberation Front   Ferd Eggan     11
Queering the Underground   Daniel Burton-Rose     19
It's All About Class   Tommi Avicolli Mecca     29
Sites of Resistance or Sites of Racism?   Priyank Jindal     39
Fighting to Win   Dean Spade     47
Gay Art Guerrillas: Interview with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman   Stephen Kent Jusick     54
More Abercrombie Than Activist?   Kaila Kuban   Chris Grinnell     74
Choice Cuts   Charlie Anders     87
Legalized Sodomy is Political Foreplay   Patrick Califia     92
Queer Parents: An Oxymoron? Or Just Moronic?   Stephanie Schroeder     100
Never a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride   Carol Queen     105
Is Gay Marriage Racist?   Marlon M. Bailey   Priya Kandaswamy   Mattie Udora Richardson     113
Children, the Trucks, Chainmail, Time, the Border, Skin Problems, the Feds,and the Urban Eco-Village of Your Dreams
Sylvia and Sylvia's Children: A Battle for a Queer Public Space   Benjamin Shepard     123
Unsuitable for Children   Gina de Vries     141
Revolting   Josina Manu Maltzman     147
A Tragic Love Story, or The Love Affair As Defining Moment, or The Love Affair That Never Happened   Reginald Lamar     152
Inside the Box   Neil Edgar     158
Riding Radio to Choke the IMF   Blake Nemec   SalMonella     162
Sexing up the Conflict   Query     174
Vitoligo vs. the Drapetomania Syndrome   Dr. Ralowe Trinitrotoluene Ampu, DDS     188
Sex, Gender, and Letters to Myself   Elias seMbessakwini     199
Piss, Transnational Capital, Lice Remover, the Piers, Mary, Dr. Laura, the Naked Truth, and Ricki Lake
Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face   Rocko Bulldagger     213
Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries!   Simone Chess   Alison Kafer   Jessi Quizar   Mattie Udora Richardson     216
That Incredible Exhilaration: An Interview with Jim Eigo from The ACT UP Oral History Project   Sarah Schulman     237
Fed Up Queers   Jennifer Flynn   Eustacia Smith     249
Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza   Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore     268
Stripping for the Movement   Eustacia Smith     296
Stayin' Alive: Trans Survival and Struggle on the Streets of Philadelphia   Michelle O'Brien     305
Getting to the Root   Jesse Heiwa     312
Corroding our Quality of Life   Justin Anton Rosado     317
Dealing Discourse: Drugs and the (Re)invention of Resistance   Eric Stanley     329
Bios     337
Acknowledgments     347
About the Author     349