The End of Gay: (And the Death of Heterosexuality) - Hardcover

Archer, Bert

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9781904132073: The End of Gay: (And the Death of Heterosexuality)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904132073 ISBN 13: 9781904132073

Publisher: Fusion Press, 2002

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Gay is a phase. As gay culture becomes more mainstream, gay identity will become less important, and heterosexuality will become correspondingly less relevant. Canadian Bert Archer_s lively polemic takes in popular culture, literature, history, and personal experience, with references to Dawson_s Creek, Saturday Night Live, Howard Stern, Shakespeare, Madonna, Calvin Klein, and much more. The End of Gay looks forward to the vast pos-sibilities of love without labels in a century when categories of human sexuality are more fluid than ever.

"Archer definitely has that Zeitgeist thing nailed. And he knows how to work it."_Montreal Mirror

"Chattily written, intelligent, personally engaging, and a persuasive, historically anchored case that sexual identities are socially constructed rather than natural phenomena."_Quill & Quire

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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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