num_pages: 230
description: Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man!Queer 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 charactersand 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 societyand each otherto 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 A Journal of Cripgay Voices the book 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.
language: English
title: Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories
publisher: Routledge