How To Be Gay by Halper, David M. - ISBN 10: 0674283996 - ISBN 13: 9780674283992 - Belknap Prs: An Imprt of Harvard Universy Prs - 2014 - Softver
Contents:
- HOW TO BE GAY
- HOW TO BE GAY BY DAVID M HALPER – REVIEW
- HOW TO BE GAY
- ‘HOW TO BE GAY’ BY DAVID M. HALPER
- HOW TO BE GAY - SOFTVER
HOW TO BE GAY
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No one rais an eyebrow if you suggt that a guy who arrang his furnure jt so, rolls his ey exaggerated disbelief, lik techno mic or show tun, and knows all of Bette Davis’s bt l by heart might, jt possibly, be gay.
HOW TO BE GAY BY DAVID M HALPER – REVIEW
In “How to Be Gay,” David M. Halper argu that when to fg what means to be a homosexual man, sex is overrated. * how to be gay halperin *
Inspired by the notor unrgraduate urse of the same tle that Halper tght at the Universy of Michigan, provokg cri of outrage om both the right-wg media and the gay prs, How To Be Gay trac gay men’s cultural difference to the social meang of style. Far om beg terred by stereotyp, Halper nclus that the geni of gay culture ris some of s most spised featur: s atheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoratn of glamour, ritur of women, and obssn wh mothers.
HOW TO BE GAY
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Halper, a profsor of the history and theory of sexualy at the Universy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, provotively argu that when to fg what means to be a homosexual man, sex is overrated. ” The great value of tradnal gay male culture, he further poss, perhaps even more challenggly, “ris some of s most spised and repudiated featur: gay male femy, diva worship, atheticism, snobbery, drama, adoratn of glamour, riture of women and obssn wh the figure of the mother.
Among the most unual thgs about “How to Be Gay” is that is, at heart, a 500-pl-page work that explor a fundamental kd of gay sensibily by ncentratg almost exclively on one actrs, Joan Crawford, and on a sgle scene a sgle movie, the 1945 drama “Mildred Pierce.
Halper teas an enormo amount out of this scene, cludg the sense of “glamour and abjectn” gay dienc fd Crawford, and how the film packag the “transgrsive spectacle of female strength, tonomy, feists and power.
‘HOW TO BE GAY’ BY DAVID M. HALPER
Halper works up to an argument (impossible to summarize here) about how the film evok a “dissint perspective” on the very ia of romantic is articulate about many other thgs this book, cludg how gay men often fd more ronance straight cultural artifacts than gay on. Halper even neatly mows down hipster irony the face of the kd of gay male irony that f ’s a kaleidospic book that at s base breaks wh what the thor lls “the ‘Brokeback Mounta’ crowd.
HOW TO BE GAY - SOFTVER
What he n be ncerned about, seems, is the culture of Gay, passed down through generatns of slappers, proppg up the bars of Soho London, Chelsea New York, and the Marais Paris, all quarters which are now as ad as the proverbial Halper has wrten an over-long book, more lolised s applitn than he seems fully to appreciate, about the aspects of beg gay other than sexual choice. Naturally, when a urse "How to Be Gay" was announced the Amerin mid-wt, an army of enraged fay-first mpaigners rose up tpe leisurewear to nounce Profsor Halper for wantg to rec the nocent.