That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation

by Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein

• ISBN13: 9781593761950
• ISBN10: 1593761953
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-28
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

As a gay elite prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. That's Revoluting! skewers assimilationist trends with incisive essays like "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Is Gay Marriage Racist?" and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron Or Just Plain Moronic?" This expanded edition contains the original work by dozens of visionaries, including Patrick Califia, Dean Spade, and Carol Queen, as well as five new selections that cover everything from rabble-rousing with the Gay Liberation Front in the 1960s to blowing up buildings with the George Jackson Brigade in the 1970s, current-day rural queer youth organizing in Massachusetts to the infamous Drop the Debt / Stop AIDS action in New York. This is a clarion call for anyone who questions the value of becoming the Stepford Homosexual. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. Her book The Freezer Door is out now. Maggie Nelson says it's "a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone."

Table of Contents

There's more to life than platinum: challenging the tyranny of sweatshop-produced rainbow flags and participatory patriarchy	p. 1
Church, State, Acid Trips, the Merry-go-Round, Patriots, the Conspiracy, and Diapers
Dykes and Fags Want Everything: Dreaming with the Gay Liberation Front	p. 11
Queering the Underground	p. 19
It's All About Class	p. 29
Sites of Resistance or Sites of Racism?	p. 39
Fighting to Win	p. 47
Gay Art Guerrillas: Interview with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman	p. 54
More Abercrombie Than Activist?	p. 74
Choice Cuts	p. 87
Legalized Sodomy is Political Foreplay	p. 92
Queer Parents: An Oxymoron? Or Just Moronic?	p. 100
Never a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride	p. 105
Is Gay Marriage Racist?	p. 113
Children, the Trucks, Chainmail, Time, the Border, Skin Problems, the Feds, and the Urban Eco-Village of Your Dreams
Sylvia and Sylvia's Children: A Battle for a Queer Public Space	p. 123
Unsuitable for Children	p. 141
Revolting	p. 147
A Tragic Love Story, or The Love Affair As Defining Moment, or The Love Affair That Never Happened	p. 152
Inside the Box	p. 158
Riding Radio to Choke the IMF	p. 162
Sexing up the Conflict	p. 174
Vitoligo vs. the Drapetomania Syndrome	p. 188
Sex, Gender, and Letters to Myself	p. 199
Piss, Transnational Capital, Lice Remover, the Piers, Mary, Dr. Laura, the Naked Truth, and Ricki Lake
Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face	p. 213
Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries!	p. 216
That Incredible Exhilaration: An Interview with Jim Eigo from The ACT UP Oral History Project	p. 237
Fed Up Queers	p. 249
Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza	p. 268
Stripping for the Movement	p. 296
Stayin' Alive: Trans Survival and Struggle on the Streets of Philadelphia	p. 305
Getting to the Root	p. 312
Corroding our Quality of Life	p. 317
Dealing Discourse: Drugs and the (Re)invention of Resistance	p. 329
Bios	p. 337
Acknowledgments	p. 347
About the Author	p. 349
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