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Politically Incorrect
Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy Edited by Bruce Bawer Free Press, 1996
The protest group Queer Nation may have imploded, but its nom de guerre lives on as a kind of teddy bear for the gay Left, providing the comfort of radical purity. In contrast, the authors of this book see the word "queer" as a pejorative that stands for abnormality. Beyond Queer is a collection of essays, mostly published previously, which dissents from gay Left views and attempts to set out a vision of an alternative gay politics and culture.
Gay anti-orthodoxy isn't yet a mass movement, considering that all but two of the writers are male and sixty percent of the essays in this book come from just four people: Bruce Bawer himself, Paul Varnell, Andrew Sullivan, and Jonathan Rauch. What the writers lack in numbers, they make up in cogency. The essays are closely reasoned and dispassionate in tone. This is a rarity anywhere these days, but here it marks a rejection of the gay Left's favored form...