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HOW TO BE GAY
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 david halperin *
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. ” The claratns n unter to much of the prevailg gay pri ethos, which argu that gay men are, to borrow the tle of Andrew Sullivan’s 1995 book, “virtually normal.
Halper, like the figure on the Heisman Trophy, rais his hand rebuff: “For all s unniable benefs, gay pri is now preventg om knowg ourselv. Devilishly, he pos: “Sometim I thk homosexualy is wasted on gay people. ” And, speakg about how gay men make their own of popular culture: “What do perverts do, after all, if not pervert?
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HOW TO BE GAY BY DAVID M HALPER – REVIEW
They feared offered what he lls “the blueprt for homosexual world domatn.
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HOW TO BE GAY
In packg the ias up to “How to Be Gay, ” the book versn, Mr. Halper n also be ank and funny, and he gets a lot of tertg utteranc off his plate “How to Be Gay. ” The book n be a drag ( the non-gay sense) but is never a bore.