num_pages: 143
description: Raymond Luczak shares stories from his days growing up as a deaf gay man in Michigans Upper Peninsula and learning signs in secret trying to follow the music on the radio in order to be cool like his hearing classmates and feeling clueless whenever gay cultural icons like the Village People Queen and Bette Midler were promoted in his small hometown. After he graduated from high school and enrolled at Gallaudet University the worlds only university for Deaf people he discovered gay literature and came out soon after. He eventually got involved with Deaf theater collaborators educators and sign language interpreters from which his worldview is substantially reshaped on issues of identity literacy technology and family.Assembly Required offers a rare in-depth glimpse into what it means to be a Deaf gay man who lives between the Deaf and hearing worlds.
language: English
title: Assembly Required: Notes from a Deaf Gay Life
publisher: RID Press