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9780299193744

Queer in America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780299193744

  • ISBN10:

    0299193748

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Summary

In this tenth-anniversary edition, journalist Michelangelo Signorile updates his classicQueer in America, the bestseller that exposed the hypocrisy and prejudice that pervade mainstream American institutions. This third edition includes a new preface and a new chapter with an eye-opening critique of present-day America and its attitude toward gays and lesbians.

Author Biography

Michelangelo Signorile is a syndicated columnist and lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

2003 Preface ix
1993 Preface: On Naming Names xv
Introduction: The Closets of Power xvii
PART I: QUEER IN NEW YORK
Lights, Camera, Act Up
3(15)
A Queer's Own Story
18(18)
Hype Anxiety
36(17)
Out of the Closets and into the Streets
53(16)
Outing, Part I
69(28)
PART II: QUEER IN WASHINGTON
Operation Out-the-Pentagon
97(26)
Inning the Outing
123(24)
Outing, Part II
147(18)
All the Presidents' Queers
165(58)
PART III: QUEER IN HOLLYWOOD
The Crucifixion of Zelda Gilroy
223(7)
From McCarthy to Medved
230(20)
Smashing the Celluloid Closet
250(36)
Outing, Part III
286(35)
The Resurrection of Sheila Kuehl
321(10)
EPILOGUE: QUEER IN AMERICA
The Oregon Nightmare
331(11)
The Silicon Solution
342(21)
A Queer Manifesto
363(6)
Acknowledgments 369(2)
Afterword 371(29)
Queer in America 2003 400(36)
Notes 436(2)
Index 438

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