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Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man!
Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories reverberates with the sound of cripgay voices rising to be heard above the din of indifference and bias, oppression and ignorance. This unique collection of compelling first-person narratives is at once assertive, bold, and groundbreaking, filled with charactersand character. Through the intimacy of one-on-one storytelling, gay men with mobility and neuromuscular disorders, spinal cord injury, deafness, blindness, and AIDS, fight isolation from societyand each otherto establish a public identity and a common culture.
Queer Crips features more than 30 first-hand accounts from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the reality of the everyday struggle disabled gay men face in a culture obsessed with conformist good looks. Themes include rejection, love, sex, dating rituals, gaycrip married life, and the profound difference between growing up queer and disabled, and suffering a life-altering injury or illness in adulthood. Co-edited by Bob Guter, creator and editor of the webzine BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices, the book includes:
two performance pieces from acclaimed author and actor Greg Walloch
poetry from Chris Hewitt, Joel S. Riche, Raymond Luczak, Mark Moody, and co-editor John Killacky
essays from BENT contributors Blaine Waterman, Raymond J. Aguilera, Danny Kodmur, Thomas Metz, Max Verga, and Eli Clare
interviews with community activist Gordon Elkins and Alan Sable, one of the first self-identified gay psychotherapists in the United States
and much more!
Queer Crips is a forum for neglected cripgay voices speaking words that are candid, edgy, bold, dreamy, challenging, and sexy. The book is essential reading for academics and students working in lesbian and gay studies, and disability studies, and for anyone who's ever visited the place where queerness and disability meet.
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Two Performance Pieces
Hustlers: A Buyer's Guide
Sticks and Stones
Disability Made Me Do It, or Modeling for the Cause
Nasty Habits
Piano Bar
But I Don't Like You Like That
Working It Out
Boy Scout of America
Rolling On (from Chapter 3)
Careening Toward Kensho: Ruminations on Disability and Community
Repetitions
How to Find Love with a Fetishist
Loving You Loving Me
A Meeting with George Dureau
Face Value: Text for a Performance Piece
Acting for Others, Acting for Myself
A Wedding Celebration
My Dictionary on Dicks
Four Poems
On Being (Un)Representative: In Memory of Barbara and Daniel
Alone in the Crowd
Love Is All Around: My Life As a Married Crip
The Boy I Used To Be
Homo on the Range
Dancing Toward the Light
Three Poems
Becoming Daddy's Boy
The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues (Chapter 6)
Night Murmurs
Beginner's Sex
Queer Ducks: An Unlikely Romance
It's All in the Eye: A Deaf Gay Man Remembers His Icons
Gawking, Gaping, Staring
Destination Bent: The Story Behind a Cyber Community for Gay Men with Disabilities
