Looking for Brothers: Essays by Michael Rowe - Brossura

Rowe, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0889626715 ISBN 13: 9780889626713

Casa editrice: Mosaic Pr, 1999

Riassunto

From the savage murder of a eighteen-year-old street youth far from home, to the author's search for the meaning of chosen family on the rust colored beaches of Prince Edward Island, Looking For Brothers presents a gay man's unique and captivating view of Canada- a native son's look at the culture and citizens who have shaped our consciousness. Spanning an eleven year period, these essays by award-winning journalist Michael Rowe examine, with a startling blend of objectivity and subjectivity, the places that society has allocated to gay men, and the places gay men have claimed for themselves: physically, emotionally, sexually, and geographically. They unflinchingly explore the carved in stone truisms cherished both by straight and gay society, in an attempt to dismantle the limiting stereotypes each group holds of themselves and the other, and to find the place where the two cultures meet. On themes including gay men in sports and the military; same-sex marriage; narcissism and the cult of male beauty; AIDS and the euthanasia debate; pornography and the limits of censorship; family, chosen and otherwise; the questionable merits of the ghetto; and a yeasty celebration of liking straight men; Looking For Brothers brings together for the first time Rowe's most acclaimed gay-themed writing. With this collection, Michael Rowe secures his position as one of Canada's most thoughtful and provocative jounalist-essayists, and one of our foremost gay writers.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Rowe was born in Ottawa and has lived in Beirut, Havana, Geneva, and Paris. An award-winning journalist, essayist, and anthologist, his work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, National Post, and The United Church Observer, among other publications. He is currently a contributing writer to The Advocate, as well as a political blogger for The Huffington Post. The author of two previous non-fiction books and the editor of four anthologies of original short fiction, he has won the Lambda Literary Award and the Spectrum Award, and has been shortlisted for both the National Magazine Award and the Associated Church Press Award. Other Men's Sons won the 2008 Randy Shilts Award for Nonfiction from the New York Publishing Triangle. He is married and lives in Toronto.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Mosaic Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0889626715
• ISBN 13: 9780889626713
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 196
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile