The End of Gay: And the Death of Heterosexuality - Softcover

Bert Archer

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9781560256113: The End of Gay: And the Death of Heterosexuality

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560256117 ISBN 13: 9781560256113

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004

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At the crux of Sex Without Borders is the question: “Why do we persist in defining ourselves by our sexual behaviors?” Written by a young man for a new generation of readers—one with radically different formative experiences—this book will be popular and controversial for its answer, and for its commonsensical defense of polymorphous sexual desire. Featuring gay and lesbian publications, this intriguing debut from columnist and reviewer Bert Archer is a timely, fun and healthy read.

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Gay is a phase. Not something people go through in adolescence, but, like feminism, a cultural, historical movement, on the way to something bigger.

Through the prism of his own sexual past and present, with a wide array of references to pop culture, literature and history, Archer traces the rise and imminent fall of gay. Along the way, he cites historical examples of greater sexual liberation, embracing the lessons of these precedents as models for our own less inhibited times. Celebrating art that expresses love and passion unfettered by gender, Archer claims Shakespeare and Prince, Goethe and Madonna, as icons for a new, more open age of sex. Stimulating, engaging and entertaining, The End of Gay is a bold work that looks forward to the vast possibilities of love without labels.

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"The End of Gay is a wonderful debut, infuriatingly smart and funny." -- Toronto Life

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