num_pages: 268
description: This collection of thoughtful, courageous, and honest essays explores the intersections of class background, social status, and "queerness," challenging the often narrow and rigid definition of gay and lesbian community. Queerly Classed highlights the voices of those whose experiences of class-combined with race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and age to explode stereotypes of queers aspiring to assimilate into the mainstream of the American middle class.
language: English
title: Queerly Classed: Gay Men & Lesbians Write About Class
titlecomplete: Queerly Classed: Gay Men & Lesbians Write About Class
genres: Essays, Class, Queer, Nonfiction, LGBT
ratings_count: 44
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Studies
publisher: South End Press