Half Straight: My Secret Bisexual Life Review

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Half Straight: My Secret Bisexual Life ReviewI read this book when I was first coming out. While I don't recommend "Tom Smith" as any sort of a role model, the book helped me by ripping off the cover of what had been, from my perspective, an entirely concealed world of exceptionally common and abundant guy-on-guy sex. No one likes to discuss how much sex is actually going on and I think a frank admission of the fact that people like sex and indulge in it vigorously is healthy for our society. Seeing how common guy-on-guy sex is even for men who otherwise seemed quite ordinary or "normal" helped me to come to terms with my own homosexuality. I began to view homosexual sex as a normal, commonplace event, as opposed to a strange, removed, "othered" experience. Tom lived a very active, multi-partner sex life which he effectively concealed over decades from his family and open society. He seems fairly honest in recounting his story and he grows somewhat as a result of telling it. I don't really think that he confronts that split in his personality effectively, however. At the end, he remains closeted, pretending to be faithful to his wife while engaging in regular sex with multiple partners. His journey is interesting and lively. It is also entirely sexual. Tom's capacity for love seems about as stunted as his libido is indulged. In the end, his story was an example of the sort of dishonest life I didn't want to live.Half Straight: My Secret Bisexual Life Overview

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The Politics of Gay Rights (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Review

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The Politics of Gay Rights (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) ReviewMost anything from University of Chicago Press is likely to be of high quality, and this anthology meets that standard. Gay and lesbian politics is an emerging and evolving discipline, and important milestones are occurring in real time. This volume, published in 2000, provides intelligent treatments of current issues but also plenty of context; while solid and scholarly, it mostly eschews the esoterica and pomo-homo preoccupations of many other works on the LGBT politics bookshelf. Chapters include treatments of history, policy, the Christian right, Congress, the Supreme Court, public opinion, and state and local politics. The editors and most of the contributors are well-known scholars and/or writers in political science or related fields (including Ken Wald, John D'Emilio, Craig Rimmerman, Keith Boykin, Didi Herman, Greg Lewis, James Button, Barbara Rienzo, Donald Haider-Markel, and Clyde Wilcox), and this is one of the book's strongest calling cards. Because it pulls together many topics addressed by some signature authorities in the field (many of whom have written book-length treatments of what appear here as chapters), "The Politics of Gay Rights" was, in my judgment, one of the first books in LGBT political science to be really useful as a core text for an undergraduate college course; I will be using it as such in a seminar on gay/lesbian politics in spring 2002 (please feel free to contact me for more information). But it's not a heavy-duty tome, so most anyone with serious interest in the subject should find it accessible and valuable.The Politics of Gay Rights (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Overview

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