WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/28751373

The culture of desire paradox and perversity in gay lives today

Is there such a thing as an American gay culture--a set of styles, values, and behaviors that arises not from ethnicity or religion but from sexual orientation? How is that culture transmitted? And how is it likely to survive the depradations of homophobia and AIDS? These questions are explored by Browning, a reporter for NPR.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "Is there such a thing as an American gay culture--a set of styles, values, and behaviors that arises not from ethnicity or religion but from sexual orientation? How is that culture transmitted? And how is it likely to survive the depradations of homophobia and AIDS? These questions are explored by Browning, a reporter for NPR."@en
  • "Existe-t-il une culture gay ? C'est autour de cette question que F. Browning explore les aspects de la vie gay. Sur le mode du reportage, cette étude des rouages de la pensée gay américaine replace en perspective les éléments que la communauté française tend à importer tels quels, sans s'interroger sur leur origine et leur bien-fondé."
  • "What is gay culture? Does it really exist? In this provocative and controversial book, Frank Browning asks the question gay men ask themselves: Can a society based on sexual desire truly call i tself a culture? In the twenty-five years since homosexual lives first emerged from the shadows, gay men have staked out the frontier of contemporary living - from AIDS to feminism, from political activism to public sex, from the inv ention of the self to the reinvention of the American family. This is the story of how gay men come together today. In "The Culture of Desire", Frank Browning embarks on a transcontinental exploration of the worlds gay men have creat ed. The AIDS drug underground in Miami and Los Angeles. The queer goings-on in Disneyland and Fire Island Pines. The Gay Games in Vancouver. West Coast sex clubs ... Browning says that culture - especially gay culture - thrives only when it embraces its own paradoxes. Filled with vivid characters, explicit in the stories, and generous in its spirit, the book explains gay life to those who are living it - to all those who care about the paradoxes of America itself."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Electronic books"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "The Culture of Desire : Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today"
  • "La culture du désir"
  • "The culture of desire paradox and perversity in gay lives today"@en
  • "The culture of desire paradox and perversity in gay lives today"
  • "The culture of desire : paradox and perversity in gay lives today"

workExample