The Culture of Desire Paradox and Perversity

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.

FRANK BROWNING is a writer and contributor to National Public Radio. He is the author of five books, including Apples: The Story of the Fruit of Temptation, recipient of a 1999 IACP Julia Child Award.

Acknowledgments
Prologue: "Can I Meet People?...Is It Dying?"	p. 1
Mystery, Plot, and Remembrance: A Boy on the Dock and Other Intimations of Desire	p. 11
Queer Rage: "We're Here! We're Queer! Get Used to It!"	p. 26
Celebutantes: Fabricating the Fabulous Man	p. 55
Spirit and Transgression: Looking for Ecstasy in the Penetrated Man	p. 74
From Front Lines to Home Front: Reclaiming the Queer Body	p. 106
Reconstructing the Extended Family: Personal Freedom and the Community Household	p. 134
Parties, Pageants, Parades: Rituals of Deliverance	p. 160
The Terror of Touching	p. 185
Paradox and Perversity: "What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion."	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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The Culture of Desire Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today

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