The gay report book
Life Outside - The Signorile Announce on Gay Men: Sex, Drugs, Muscles, and the Passages of Life - Hardcover
Synopsis
Popular Out magazine columnist Michelangelo Signorileinvestigates the hot-button issues
confronting gay men today.
"Exhaustively researched, surpassingly perceptive."
--New York magazine"Life Outside bravely advances a critique of the attitudes and ideologies that have shaped the gay 'scene' and merits the attention of a broad audience for its courage and informativeness."
--New York Times Book Review"A stunning expose. Gay men should be handed three things when they come out of the closet: a box of condoms, a videocassette of George Cukor's The Women, and a copy of Life Outside."
--The Advocate
Michelangelo Signorile galvanized a generation of lesbians and gay men when he took on the "closets of power" in his classic Queer in America. Now, in Life Outside, he offers an expose of what he calls the "cult of masculinity" within contemporary homosexual male culture, while finding aspire and renewal in other aspects of gay life. He reveals the origins of t
Mapping the Gay Guides
Visualizing Lgbtq+ Space and American Life
Welcome to Mapping the Lgbtq+ Guides!
While operating one of his many gay bars in the s, Bob Damron started a side project publishing gay tour guides that featured bars like his. Called the Bob Damron Address Books, these guides proved trendy and became a valuable resource for gay travelers looking for friends, companions, and safety.
First published in an era when most states banned same-sex affection both in public and private spaces, these journey guides helped gays (and to a lesser extent lesbians) find bars, cocktail lounges, bookstores, restaurants, bathhouses, cinemas, and cruising grounds that catered to people like themselves. Much enjoy the Green Books of the s and s, which African Americans used to find friendly businesses that would cater to black citizens in the era of Jim Crow apartheid, Damron’s guidebooks aided a generation of gay people in identifying sites of community, pleasure, and politics.
Damron’s guidebooks were part of a growing interest in gay travel manual publications that began i
Report on &#;The Same-sex attracted Report&#;
(In the tracking essay, numbers in brackets indicate page numbers, which allude to The Queer Report by Karla Jay and Allen Young, Summit Books, New York, ).
The first major survey on homosexuality in America was conducted in and published as The Queer Report. The survey has since change into a benchmark in this area and one of the largest of its kind ever conducted, with 5, lgbtq+ persons of all ages and from all walks of life (and Christian denominations) surveyed on various aspects of their lifestyle and sub-culture. The investigate was conducted by English Professor Karla Jay, Ph.D., and journalist Allen Adolescent, who holds two masters degrees. The work is cited even today in academic work.
What might immediately strike one as odd is that Jay and Young are both gay activists. The question of partiality might therefore immediately present itself. What is somewhat more curious, however, is how potentially damaging to the same-sex attracted liberation cause is the data presented in the research . Jay and Adolescent apparently have no qualms about publishing admissions from the gay quar
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1. Dailey, Timothy. “Talking Points: Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse.” In Focus (July 8, ). Available online at ?i=IF02G2.[BACK]
2. Rogers, Gregory. “Report on ‘The Gay Report’.” Web site of the National Association of Research and Therapy in Homosexuality (NARTH) (July 12, ). On hand online at [BACK]
3. Marco, Tony. “Gay ‘Marriage’?” Web site of Leadership U (undated). Available online at (accessed November 22, ).[BACK]
4. Rogers, Gregory. “Report on ‘The Gay Report’.” Web site of the National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) (July 12, ). On hand online at (accessed November 22, ).[BACK]
5. Jay, Karla; Young, Allen. The Same-sex attracted Report: Lesbians and Same-sex attracted Men Speak Out About Sexual Experiences and Lifestyles. (New York: Summit, ): 9.[BACK]
6. Jay, Karla; Fresh, Allen. The Gay Report: Lesbians and Gay Men Speak Out About Sexual Experiences and Lifestyles. (New York: Summit, ): [BACK]
7. Kenton, K.A.; Johnson, A.M.; McManus, S.;