They Called Me Faggot

They Called Me Faggot
Author: GQ Jackson
Publisher: Gaquez Jackson
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2019-12-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1650026633

Black. Gay. Lost. They Called Me Faggot is both an unflinching, uncomfortable, and unapologetic honest account of life and a young black man's frank (and sometimes poetic) recounting of what occurred. Written over the span of five years, the work boldly asks questions of life and patiently waits for answers. Readers will experience a fascinatingly turbulent ride through the lens of a man who finds, or loses, a morsel of himself on every single page.They Called Me Faggot is ensconced in interconnected realms of blackness, queerness, and the arts. GQ Jackson makes his idiosyncratic debut as an author and an artist. They Called Me Faggot is his story.

Faggots

Faggots
Author: Larry Kramer
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802136916

Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.

Dude, You're a Fag

Dude, You're a Fag
Author: C. J. Pascoe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0520271483

Draws on eighteen months of research in a racially diverse working-class high school to explore the meaning of masculinity and the social practices associated with it, discussing how homophobia is used to enforce gender conformity.

That's Mr. Faggot to You

That's Mr. Faggot to You
Author: Michael Thomas Ford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781590216026

In this hilarious follow-up to the bestselling "Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me, " Ford offers more wicked observations on queer life in America.

The Gang's All Queer

The Gang's All Queer
Author: Vanessa R. Panfil
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1479805203

Many people believe that gangs are made up of violent thugs who are in and out of jail, and who are hyper-masculine and heterosexual. Vanessa Panfil introduces us to a different world. Meet gay gang members - sometimes referred to in popular culture as "homo thugs" - whose gay identity complicates criminology's portrayal and representation of gangs, gang members, and gang life. In vivid detail, Panfil provides an in-depth understanding of how gay gang members construct and negotiate both masculine and gay identities through crime and gang membership. She draws from interviews with over 50 gay gang- and crime-involved young men in Columbus, Ohio, the majority of whom are men of color in their late teens and early twenties, as well as on-the-ground ethnographic fieldwork with men who are in gay, hybrid, and straight gangs. Panfil provides an eye-opening portrait of how even members of straight gangs are connected to a same-sex oriented underground world. Most of these young men still present a traditionally masculine persona and voice deeply-held affection for their fellow gang members. They also fight with their enemies, many of whom are in rival gay gangs. Most come from impoverished, 'rough' neighborhoods, and seek to defy negative stereotypes of gay and Black men as deadbeats, though sometimes through illegal activity. Some are still closeted to their fellow gang members and families, yet others fight to defend members of the gay community, even those who they deem to be "fags," despite distaste for these flamboyant members of the community.

Castle Faggot

Castle Faggot
Author: Derek Mccormack
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635901375

A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland. Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart of the park is Faggotland, a playland for gay men, and Castle Faggot, the darkest dark ride in the world. Home to a cartoon Dracula called Count Choc-o-log, the castle is decorated with the corpses of gays—some were killed, some killed themselves, all ended up as décor. The book includes a map of Faggotland, a photobook of the castle, the instructions for a castle-shaped dollhouse, and the novelization of a TV puppet show about Count Choc-o-log and his friends—reminiscent of the classic stop-motion special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but even gayer and more grotesque. As scatological as Sade but with a Hanna-Barbera vibe, Castle Faggot transmutes McCormack's love of the lurid and the childlike, of funhouses and sickhouses, into something furiously funny: as Edmund White says, “the mystery of objects, the lyricism of neglected lives, the menace and nostalgia of the past—these are all ingredients in this weird and beautiful parallel universe.”

Not Just a Passing Phase

Not Just a Passing Phase
Author: George A. Appleby
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780231103220

This comprehensive textbook helps social workers understand and meet the needs of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. It outlines approaches to a range of everyday problems associated with issues of oppression, family acceptance, shame, identity development, HIV disease, and addiction. The first of the book's three sections provides an overview of what it means to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and locates the text within the ecological model of social work on individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels of intervention. This section includes definitions of sexual orientation, forms of heterosexism and homophobia, and issues of community among gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. The second section covers life transitions, including childhood, adolescence, and late life, as well as sexual relationships, parenting, and life in the workplace. The last part covers the special issues and challenges of mental health, substance abuse, violence (both "gay bashing" and domestic violence), and HIV disease. The final chapter pulls together the practice concepts introduced in the book and provides a blueprint for knowledge development and dissemination in the field.

On Making Sense

On Making Sense
Author: Ernesto Javier Martínez
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804784019

On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. From James Baldwin's 1960s novel Another Country to Margaret Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy, these works all exhibit a preoccupation with intelligibility, or the labor of making sense of oneself and of making sense to others. In their efforts to "make sense," these writers and artists argue against merely being accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to confront epistemic injustice—an injustice that affects people in their capacity as knowers and as communities worthy of being known. The book speaks directly to critical developments in feminist and queer studies, including the growing ambivalence to antirealist theories of identity and knowledge. In so doing, it draws on decolonial and realist theory to offer a new framework to understand queer writers and artists of color as dynamic social theorists.

Hate and Bias Crime

Hate and Bias Crime
Author: Barbara Perry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136072985

Covering everything from hate groups and extremist exploits to Black church arsons and the fall out violence from 9/11; this is an important collection that sheds much-needed light on this growing problem.