- Femininity, Gay men, Gender identity, Homophobia
Here is a revealing look into male effeminacy: why some gay men are swishy, why other gay men are more masculine, and why effeminate men arouse anger, disgust, and disdain in both gay and straight men. Sissyphobia explores those negative feelings that are aimed at people termed fairies, faggots, flamers, and queens; men who, as author Tim Bergling puts it, "run more toward what we could term the 'Quentin Crisp school of homosexuality.'"--Publisher description.
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Spare, classical in form, character-led and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Tim Bergling
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 133
- Publisher
- Southern Tier Editions, Haworth Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781560239895
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“It is a sparkling springtime afternoon in the hearth of Gaytown, USA, that tony little section of your city where-by some marvelous and terribly convenient confluence of geography, affluence, urbanity, or simple safety-gay men come out to play, to see and be seen.”
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