Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories [Hardcover]

John Dececco Phd (Author), Bob Guter (Author), John R Killacky (Author)

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Hardcover: 254 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Nov 20 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560234563
ISBN-13: 978-1560234562
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g

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Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man!

Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories reverberates with the sound of “cripgay” voices rising to be heard above the din of indifference and bias, oppression and ignorance. This unique collection of compelling first-person narratives is at once assertive, bold, and groundbreaking, filled with characters—and character. Through the intimacy of one-on-one storytelling, gay men with mobility and neuromuscular disorders, spinal cord injury, deafness, blindness, and AIDS, fight isolation from society—and each other—to establish a public identity and a common culture.

Queer Crips features more than 30 first-hand accounts from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the reality of the everyday struggle disabled gay men face in a culture obsessed with conformist good looks. Themes include rejection, love, sex, dating rituals, gaycrip married life, and the profound difference between growing up queer and disabled, and suffering a life-altering injury or illness in adulthood. Co-edited by Bob Guter, creator and editor of the webzine BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices, the book includes:

two performance pieces from acclaimed author and actor Greg Walloch
poetry from Chris Hewitt, Joel S. Riche, Raymond Luczak, Mark Moody, and co-editor John Killacky
essays from BENT contributors Blaine Waterman, Raymond J. Aguilera, Danny Kodmur, Thomas Metz, Max Verga, and Eli Clare
interviews with community activist Gordon Elkins and Alan Sable, one of the first self-identified gay psychotherapists in the United States
and much more!

Queer Crips is a forum for neglected cripgay voices speaking words that are candid, edgy, bold, dreamy, challenging, and sexy. The book is essential reading for academics and students working in lesbian and gay studies, and disability studies, and for anyone who's ever visited the place where queerness and disability meet.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Editors Pose Nude!, Feb 4 2007

By Jeffery Mingo - Published on Amazon.com

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This review is from: Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories (Paperback)

If I remember correctly, this anthology won a Lambda nomination and it deserved it. It really helps you to work, or ride, in the paths of disabled gay men. Contributors were born with disabilities and later acquired them. The writers discuss finding lovers, whether they want able-bodied or disabled partners, having sex with disabled bodies, prejudice from gays and straights. I must admit that sometimes contributors seemed self-loathing in wanting to ignore their disabilities or wanting to keep away from other disabled individuals. Still, I admire their courage in opening the eyes of many.

Too often in anthologies covering double minorities, the editors are so quick to get contributions that they'll take works that fail to talk of both identities. Here each contributor speaks of both. No one speaks on disability alone or sexuality alone. Moreover, most articles discuss boyhood; those interested in GBT youth matters may especially take note.

I had too big problems with this book. First, the contributors were overrepresented among middle-class and white writers. Some contributors had Spanish names, but the intersection of race, sexuality, and disability rarely came up. Even the title rings of this homogeneity. If you say "crips," to many the answer would be "the rival gang of bloods," not "a word that disabled people may try to reclaim." Further, the editing made all the voices sound the same. Yes, you hear divergent stories, but sometimes it felt like the same writer could have penned them.

Cole Porter became a paraplegic due to a riding accident. Derek Jarman went blind because of AIDS. Arthur Rimbaud may have lost his leg. There are many gay disabled men and we haven't heard enough from them. I thank these authors for helping to start, or continue, that discussion.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, Jan 14 2012

By Mikey - Published on Amazon.com

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Despite this book's rather pricey range I fully enjoyed every page of it. As a gay man with a disability; I found it to be an uplifting anthology that packs a punch and actually empowers gay men with disabilities.

I found a new sense of empowerment and direction after reading some of the stories and essays from gay men.

These stories came from Bent which was a webzine about gay disabled men in the late 90's.

The stories aren't very long and each tells a different story about a different disability.

And there's some sex in it which answers the question to those who think people with disabilities are asexual.

The only drawback to this anthology is that it describes men with physical disabilities. I was quite disappointed that some of Bent's content on mentally ill gay men was not featured. But I quickly got over it.

Overall this anthology is great as both an academic resource as well as a a leisure read. It's well worth it!

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