num_pages: 208
description: 2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT NonfictionBreaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people and their lives In You Can Tell Just by Looking three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring popular and deeply held myths about lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people culture and life in America. Myths such as All Religions Condemn Homosexuality and Transgender People Are Mentally Ill have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Others such as Homosexuals Are Born That Way have been embraced by LGBT communities and their allies. In discussing and dispelling these mythsincluding gay-positive onesthe authors challenge readers to question their own beliefs and to grapple with the complexities of what it means to be queer in the broadest social political and cultural sense.
language: English
title: "You Can Tell Just By Looking": And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People
publisher: Beacon Press