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- catalog abstract ""What is gay culture? Does it really exist? In this provocative and controversial book. Frank Browning asks the question gay men ask themselves: Can a society based on sexual desire truly call itself a culture? In the twenty-five years since homosexual lives first emerged from the shadows, gay men have staked out the frontier of contemporary living - from AIDS to feminism, from political activism to public sex, from the invention of the self to the reinvention of the American family." "This is the story of how gay men come together today. In The Culture of Desire, National Public Radio contributor Frank Browning embarks on a transcontinental exploration of the worlds gay men have created. The AIDS drug underground in Miami and Los Angeles. The queer goings-on in Disneyland and Fire Island Pines, The Gay Games in Vancouver, West Coast sex clubs, Farmers in Kentucky, Cuban couples in Florida, and Queer Nationals invading suburban shopping malls in San Francisco and across America." "Browning says that culture - especially gay culture - thrives only when it embraces its own paradoxes. Gay men must reconcile their longing for social and community identity with the dream of absolute freedom. What Oscar Wilde referred to as the paradox of thought and the perversity of passion create the elusive culture of desire." "Filled with vivid characters, explicit in its stories, and generous in its spirit, The Culture of Desire explains gay life to those who are living it - and to all those who care about the paradoxes of America itself."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b4089439.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""What is gay culture? Does it really exist? In this provocative and controversial book. Frank Browning asks the question gay men ask themselves: Can a society based on sexual desire truly call itself a culture? In the twenty-five years since homosexual lives first emerged from the shadows, gay men have staked out the frontier of contemporary living - from AIDS to feminism, from political activism to public sex, from the invention of the self to the reinvention of the American family." "This is the story of how gay men come together today. In The Culture of Desire, National Public Radio contributor Frank Browning embarks on a transcontinental exploration of the worlds gay men have created. The AIDS drug underground in Miami and Los Angeles. The queer goings-on in Disneyland and Fire Island Pines, The Gay Games in Vancouver, West Coast sex clubs, Farmers in Kentucky, Cuban couples in Florida, and Queer Nationals invading suburban shopping malls in San Francisco and across America." "Browning says that culture - especially gay culture - thrives only when it embraces its own paradoxes. Gay men must reconcile their longing for social and community identity with the dream of absolute freedom. What Oscar Wilde referred to as the paradox of thought and the perversity of passion create the elusive culture of desire." "Filled with vivid characters, explicit in its stories, and generous in its spirit, The Culture of Desire explains gay life to those who are living it - and to all those who care about the paradoxes of America itself."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-233) and indexc.".
- catalog description "Mystery, plot, and remembrance -- Queer rage -- Celebutantes -- Spirit and transgression -- From front lines to home front -- Reconstructing the extended family -- Parties, pageants, parades -- The terror of touching -- Paradox and perversity.".
- catalog extent "viii, 241 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Culture of desire.".
- catalog identifier "0517581922 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Culture of desire.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Crown,".
- catalog relation "Culture of desire.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.3/89664 20".
- catalog subject "Gay culture United States.".
- catalog subject "Gay men United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ76.U5 B745 1993".
- catalog subject "Lifestyles United States.".
- catalog subject "Subculture.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mystery, plot, and remembrance -- Queer rage -- Celebutantes -- Spirit and transgression -- From front lines to home front -- Reconstructing the extended family -- Parties, pageants, parades -- The terror of touching -- Paradox and perversity.".
- catalog title "The culture of desire : paradox and perversity in gay lives today / Frank Browning.".
- catalog type "text".