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No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea, they will say, is just a stereotype-ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth.

David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must learn from one another in order to become who they are. Inspired by the notorious undergraduate course of the same title that Halperin taught at the University of Michigan, provoking cries of outrage from both the right-wing media and the gay press,How To Be Gay traces gay men's cultural difference to the social meaning of style.

Far from being deterred by stereotypes, Halperin concludes that the genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers. The insights, impertinence, and unfazed critical intelligence displayed by gay culture, Halperin argues, have much to offer the heterosexual mainstream.

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"[Halperin] provocatively argues that when it comes to defining what it means to be a homosexual man, sex is overrated...Culture matters more...[How To Be Gay] is never a bore...[It] explores a fundamental kind of gay sensibility...Halperin teases an enormous amount out of [a] scene [in Mildred Pierce], including the sense of "glamour and abjection" gay audiences find in [Joan] Crawford, and how the film packages the "transgressive spectacle of female strength, autonomy, feistiness and power." ...Halperin works up to an argument (impossible to summarize here) about how the film evokes a "dissident perspective" on the very idea of romantic love. He is articulate about many other things in this book, including how gay men often find more resonance in straight cultural artifacts than in gay ones. His funny shorthand for this is: "Why would we want Edmund White, when we still have The Golden Girls?" ...He is excellent, too, on how classical tragedy is nearly always about men, or fathers and sons...Dozens of similar arguments are rehearsed in How To Be Gay. Halperin even neatly mows down hipster irony in the face of the kind of gay male irony that defines camp. It's a kaleidoscopic book that at its base breaks with what the author calls "the Brokeback Mountain crowd." He urges gay men to take their so-called femininity out of "homosexuality's newly built closet," to see it plainly and to give it affirmative interpretations." --Dwight Garner, New York Times, 7 August 2012

"This is a delightfully puzzling book...Halperin makes it clear from the outset that gay culture is not at all the same thing as gay sex, gay identity, or even homosexuality...What is marvelous is Halperin's rich analysis of many aspects of this gay cultural life, showing the distinctive ways it makes use of straight culture." --Ken Plummer, THE, Thursday 23 August 2012

"An arresting thesis, and Halperin has revealing insights. 'How to be Gay' ranges spiritedly across broad terrain - from Eldward Albee to Annie Proulx, from 'Desperate Housewives' to 'La Cage aux Folles'." --Richard Canning, The Independent, Saturday 18 Augst 2012

"We're sure none of you need lessons on How to be Gay, so fortunately, that's not quite the straightforward premise of this weighty, thought-provoking tome from David M. Halperin... [He] explores notions of gay male identity and stereotypes, wondering what has shaped gay behaviour and whether it's a reaction again the hetero-normative society into which we're born." --Out in the City, 1 November 2012

"An arresting thesis, and Halperin has revealing insights. 'How to be Gay' ranges spiritedly across broad terrain - from Eldward Albee to Annie Proulx, from 'Desperate Housewives' to 'La Cage aux Folles'." --Richard Canning, The Independent, Saturday 18 Augst 2012

"David Halperin's new book, 'How to Be Gay', addresses the mysterious persistence of discredited elements of pre-Stonewall gay male culture. In theory, camp should have been rendered obsolete by the arrival of models of gay behaviour not driven by the old toxic blend of shame and defiance, but there are still careers to be made from the man-sized frock and the killer putdown. Halperin's argument is that these oddly resilient practices need to be looked at closely rather than swept under the carpet (relegated to gay liberation's own closet, as he sees it)." --Adam Mars-Jones, London Review of Books, Thursday 22 November 2012

"An arresting thesis, and Halperin has revealing insights. 'How to be Gay' ranges spiritedly across broad terrain - from Eldward Albee to Annie Proulx, from 'Desperate Housewives' to 'La Cage aux Folles'." --Richard Canning, The Independent, Saturday 18 Augst 2012
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David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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