num_pages: 240
description: No subject has divided contemporary America more bitterly than homosexuality.  Addressing the full range of the debate in this pathbreaking book, Andrew Sullivan, the former editor of The New Republic, restores both reason and humanity to the discussion over how a predominantly heterosexual society should deal with its homosexual citizens.Sympathetically yet relentlessly, Sullivan assesses the prevailing public positions on homosexuality--from prohibitionist to liberationist and from conservative to liberal.  In their place, he calls for a politics of homosexuality that would guarantee the rights of gays and lesbians without imposing tolerance.  At once deeply personal and impeccably reasoned, written with elegance and wit, Virtually Normal will challenge readers of every persuasion; no book is more likely to transform out sexual politics in the coming decades.
language: English
title: Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality
titlecomplete: Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality
genres: LGBT, Gay, History, Gender and Sexuality, Philosophy, Sociology, Nonfiction, Social Science, Queer, Politics
ratings_count: 436
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Studies
publisher: Vintage