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Contents:

• MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY
• THE AM I GAY TT (MEN ONLY!)
• TOP TEN THGS THAT PROBABLY MA ME GAY
• INTRODUCTN TO MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY*
• THE 2000S MA ME GAY

MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY

Esther Newton Ma Me Gay celebrat the life, lov, and fluence of this pneerg figure queer studi. “Through the ank rellectns of Newton, now her early 80s, Carlomto tak the dawn of gay liberatn, fightg wh the femist movement, AIDS activism, and the history of the formatn of the idyllic queer muny of Fire Island’s Cherry Grove. “Esther Newton Ma Me Gay is a ‘sigh of relief’ pable of empowerg and liberatg , by focg on the nstctn and regnn of inti and tegori that have been somehow left film is a polil wns that valu and enrich dialog between generatns.

THE AM I GAY TT (MEN ONLY!)

Esther Newton Ma Me Gay. Now enterg her eighth wrg about queer muni, Esther Newton’s life’s work has fluenced generatns of activists and SYNOPSISESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY explor the life and tim of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton.

Her work spired generatns of scholars to pursue rearch what would eventually bee the field of LGBTQ+ and Genr film tells her story of awakeng to gay life the 1950’s, the women’s liberatn movement and lbian-femism, drag culture, and fg a butch inty which for her is now nversatn wh attuned to the cultural and societal forc that shaped her life, Esther guis through an anthropology of herself, a study fluenced by her love for a sport—petive dog agily—that pairs her agg butch body wh her beloved dog teammate on an obstacle urse that is nstantly her persistent efforts to tra her body back to shape after numero health setbacks, we see the tense drive that has helped Esther navigate a lifetime of obstacl she faced her qut to bee who she wanted to be: a butch lbian, scholar, and athlete.

TOP TEN THGS THAT PROBABLY MA ME GAY

Featurg Esther Newton, Holly Hugh, Louise Fishman, Amber Holibgh, Shaka McGlotten, Tom “Panzi” Hansen, Jack Halberstam, Mart Manalansan, Gayle Rub. Kramer, Gay Cy News. ABOUT THE FILMESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY explor the life and tim of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton.

SUPPORT THE FILMMake a tax-ductible donatn to Esther Newton Ma Me Gay and support tellg the story of the groundbreakg scholar whose life’s work has fluenced generatns of LGBTQ activists and scholars. Today’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer hero, both fictnal and real, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury.

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INTRODUCTN TO MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY*

“[Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay] is hont, movg on the personal level and provotive on the amic level. ” — Michael Schwartz, Gay & Lbian Review. Not only anthropologists, but historians, soclogists, and psychologists, all thos who value gay studi, will fd much to light and to ponr this stimulatg volume.

This volume is both provotive and accsible enough to be ed succsfully unrgraduate urs on field methods, women’s movements, and gay and lbian studi.

Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay ntas enough of that work to make a strong se for Newton as a pneer of queer studi. It also clus the terrific, prevly unpublished 1990s say ‘Theater: Gay Anti-Church’ which hly explor the cliché of stage-lovg gays.

THE 2000S MA ME GAY

This anthology is an dispensable rource for anyone terted late twentieth-century anthropology, femism, gay and lbian studi, genr and sexualy, and the social science of everyday life. ” — Gayle Rub “Esther Newton’s work... Have you ever wonred, "am i gay, am i straight, am i bi?