Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies

by Richard D. Mohr

Book Overview

One of the most provocative thinkers in the gay community has turned his attention to the urgent moral dilemmas facing gays in America today. Gay Ideas addresses, in diverse and often unexpected ways,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807079200
• ISBN13: 9780807079201
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Experts on the verge of insanity.

Reading this book was an exercise in democracy for me, and it wasn't too surprising to find the idea that promiscuous gay encounters are a much better paradigm for democracy than anything that heterosexists ever thought up. At times, it hardly seems likely that any country will actually embrace democratic ideals as heartily as gay liberation has been emphasized in the American media, but this perspective serves to demonstrate a real relationship between political theory and the ideas in this book, and there are a lot of ideas in this book.Before saying anything unfortunate, I should admit that my closest brush with insanity about these things might involve a sexual situation which was purely hetersexual, involving a woman who was proud that she was 18 years old and no longer subject to certain restrictions which our society imposes on children, but that my own belief that women turn into old frumps at the age of 28 was what made it crazy for me to think that she had a long way to go before she would be 28. I really don't know enough about gay men to speculate on when any of them might reach my feelings on what they do and react in an insane manner about their own behavior, and it is pure speculation and fantasy on my part that any of them will ever look back on their behavior in quite the same way as a woman who has become an old frump who calls her husband at work every day to tell him, "I love you," but who doesn't quite mean it the same way as when two of us were headed back to work, after lunch, and I told her, "I forgot to nibble on your ear."