Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology

By: Gay American Indians (Organization)

Book Overview

A groundbreaking collection of essays and stories by, about, and selected by gay American Indians from over twenty North American tribes. From the preface by Randy Burns (Northern Paiute): Gay... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312018991
• ISBN13: 9780312018993
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 10.0" x 2.0"

Customer Reviews

Living the Spirit-Use for Class

The book has been a useful and valuable tool for my class English 710, Gender and Sexuality in American Indian Literature. Informative and enlightening. Members of numerous tribes are heard from. Resource section allows for further study.

An amazing look at how we robbed America of its queerness.

This incredible book is a compilation of essays, stories, poems, and biographical accounts of living as a gay, bisexual, transsexual, or hermaphrodite American-Indian (all which have been lumped under the term 'berdache'). This book not only deals with the history of American Indians, and how they embraced the non-heterosexual members of their society as healers, but shows how, with the creation of the New World, the English made American-Indians turn against their own, converting their religion, and, in turn, converting them into a homophobic subculture. Finally, there are wonderful accounts of living in modern society as a gay American-Indian, and the scorn these people receive. This is an eye-opening and disturbing book that really gives us a better understanding of all the things we took from American-Indians.