"""You Can Tell Just By Looking""": And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

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Michael Bronski Ann Pellegrini

"""You Can Tell Just By Looking"""

And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, Michael Amico

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English

Beacon Press
01 September 2018

Gay & Lesbian studies

Series: Myths Made in America

"Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives.

2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist- LGBT Nonfiction

Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives

In ""You Can Tell Just by Looking""three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Myths, such as ""All Religions Condemn Homosexuality"" and ""Transgender People Are Mentally Ill,"" have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Others, such as ""Homosexuals Are Born That Way,"" have been embraced by LGBT communities and their allies. In discussing and dispelling these myths-including gay-positive ones-the authors challenge readers to question their own beliefs and to grapple with the complexities of what it means to be queer in the broadest social, political, and cultural sense."

By: Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, Michael Amico
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780807042458
ISBN 10: 0807042455
Series: Myths Made in America
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Bronski (Cambridge, Massachusetts) has written extensively on LGBT issues for four decades. He is the author of several award-winning books, including most recently A Queer History of the United States. He is Professor of the Practice in Activism and Media in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Ann Pellegrini(New York, New York) is professor of performance studies and religious studies at New York University, where she also directs NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. She has written extensively about religion, sexuality, and US public life. Her publications include Performance Anxieties and the coauthored book Love the Sin. Michael Amico (New Haven, Connecticut) is a PhD candidate in American studies at Yale University, and is writing a history of the love between two men in the Civil War. He has written for LGBT youth publications, such as Young Gay America, and provided political analysis for the Boston Phoenix and other venues.

Reviews for """You Can Tell Just By Looking""": And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

This powerful book demands that we look more closely at the ways we move in and structure our society, and asks vital questions that will steer the culture toward justice and equality. --Publishers Weekly, starred review This groundbreaking book is rich in smart, stirring, and forthright examinations of myths, negative and positive, and clarifying examples, and holds to scholarly standards while compellingly and revealingly addressing the curiosity and concerns of mainstream readers. --Booklist One of the most complete sourcebooks about science, sociology and LGBT life out there. --PopMatters