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By John Dececco Phd

Get an inside of viewpoint on existence as a disabled homosexual guy!

Queer Crips: Disabled homosexual males and Their tales reverberates with the sound of “cripgay” voices emerging to be heard above the din of indifference and bias, oppression and lack of awareness. This detailed choice of compelling first-person narratives is right away assertive, daring, and groundbreaking, jam-packed with characters—and personality. during the intimacy of one-on-one storytelling, homosexual males with mobility and neuromuscular issues, spinal twine damage, deafness, blindness, and AIDS, struggle isolation from society—and each one other—to determine a public identification and a standard tradition.

Queer Crips good points greater than 30 first-hand bills from various views, illuminating the truth of the typical fight disabled homosexual males face in a tradition passionate about conformist attractiveness. subject matters comprise rejection, love, intercourse, courting rituals, gaycrip married lifestyles, and the profound distinction among growing to be up queer and disabled, and soreness a life-altering damage or disease in maturity. Co-edited via Bob Guter, author and editor of the webzine BENT: A magazine of Cripgay Voices, the e-book comprises:

  • functionality items from acclaimed writer and actor Greg Walloch
  • poetry from Chris Hewitt, Joel S. Riche, Raymond Luczak, Mark Moody, and co-editor John Killacky
  • essays from BENT individuals Blaine Waterman, Raymond J. Aguilera, Danny Kodmur, Thomas Metz, Max Verga, and Eli Clare
  • interviews with group activist Gordon Elkins and Alan Sable, one of many first self-identified homosexual psychotherapists within the usa
  • and lots more and plenty extra!

Queer Crips is a discussion board for overlooked cripgay voices talking phrases which are candid, edgy, daring, dreamy, difficult, and horny. The ebook is key studying for teachers and scholars operating in lesbian and homosexual reports, and incapacity reports, and for a person who is ever visited where the place queerness and incapacity meet.

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