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Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless search for Absolut vodka, Diesel denim jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to intimate flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the armed forces, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are turn off to make way for wedding vows, and gay intimate culture morphs into "straight-acting dudes hangin' out", what are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that challenges the assimilationist norms of any corporate-cozy lifestyle?Why Are Faggots So Worried of Faggots? challenges not only the assault of straight homophobia but the hypocrisy of mainstream gay norms that say the only way to remain safe is to act straight: Get committed, join the armed forces, choose kids! Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reinvokes the anger, flamboyance, and subversion once growing in gay subcultures in order to build something dangerous and lovely: An exploration of the perils of assimilation; a call for accountability; a perspective for change. A sassy and splintering emergency intervention!Called "startlingly strong and provocative" by Howard Zinn, and described as "a combination between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda" by The Austin Chronicle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is undoubtedly one of America's most outspoken queer critics. She actually is the writer of two novels, including, most recently, A LOT OF Ways to Rest Badly, and it is the editor of four nonfiction anthologies, including No person Goes by: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.
