Author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Presents
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots
- When
- Tue Feb 14, 2012
- Where
- San Francisco Main Public Library
- Time
- 6 pm - 7:30 pm
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Author Appearances, Books
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Description
That's right -- it's the official Valentine's Day book launch for Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's latest anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform -- featuring a delicious discussion with contributors Jaime Cortez, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Debanuj DasGupta, Booh Edouardo, Eric Stanley, Harris Kornstein, Gina de Vries, Horehound Stillpoint, Matthew D. Blanchard, and your host and editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.Sponsored by the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center of San Francisco Public Library.
Gay culture has become the ultimate nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into “straight-acting dudes hangin’ out,” what are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that challenges the assimilationist norms of a corporate-cozy lifestyle? This anthology reinvokes the anger, flamboyance, and subversion once thriving in gay subcultures in order to create something dangerous and lovely: an exploration of the perils of assimilation; a call for accountability; a vision for change.
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