PoMoSexuals Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

by Queen, Carol; Schimel, Lawrence; Bornstein, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781573440745
• ISBN10: 1573440744
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-10
• Publisher: Cleis Press

Summary

Preface by Kate Bornstein Dishes up an all-star cast of articulate, witty, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered authors - all of whom want to explode your assumptions about sexuality!

Table of Contents

PREFACE	13	(6)
Kate Bornstein
INTRODUCTION	19	(10)
Carol Queen
Lawrence Schimel
1 BEYOND DEFINITIONS	29	(10)
LOADED WORDS	29	(10)
Greta Christina
2 THE POLITIC IDENTITY: QUESTIONING REPUTATIONS	39	(31)
LIKE A VIRGIN	39	(14)
John Weir
CONFESSIONS OF A SECOND GENERATION...DYKE?: REFLECTIONS ON SEXUAL NON-IDENTITY	53	(9)
Katherine Raymond
LE FREAK, C'EST CHIC! LE FAG, QUELLE DRAG!	62	(8)
D. Travers Scott
3 DON'T FENCE ME IN: BI- PAN- OMNI-SEXUALS	70	(17)
BEYOND BISEXUALITY	70	(6)
Marco Vassi
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE FAG HAGS	76	(11)
Carol Queen
4 THROUGH A GLASS QUEERLY: OUR BOYS, OURSELVES	87	(27)
IDENTITY SEDITION AND PORNOGRAPHY	87	(20)
Pat Califia
HER BODY, MINE, AND HIS	107	(7)
Dorothy Allison
5 HERMAPHRODYKES: GIRLS WILL BE BOYS, DYKES WILL BE FAGS	114	(15)
ANTIVENOM FOR THE SOUL	114	(8)
Laura Antoniou
STROKING MY INNER FAG	122	(7)
Jill Nagle
6 GENDER PENDING: DENYING GENDER IMPERATIVES	129	(34)
THE PERSONALS	129	(9)
David Harrison
LINES IN THE SAND, CRIES OF DESIRE	138	(12)
Riki Anne Wilchins
A REAL GIRL	150	(13)
Michael Thomas Ford
7 TECTONIC SHIFTS: CROSSING CULTURES, MAPPING DESIRES	163
DIASPORA, SWEET DIASPORA	163	(11)
Lawrence Schimel
ADVENTURES OF A DACHA SEX SPY	174
David Tuller