That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation

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As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting! . This timely collection shows what the new queer resistance looks like. Intended as a fistful of rocks to throw at the glass house of Gaylandia, the book challenges the commercialized, commodified, and hyperobjectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models. Essays include “Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face,” “Gay Art Guerrillas,” “Legalized Sodomy Is Political Foreplay,” and “Queer Parents: An Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?”
Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781593761950

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Catapult

Publication Date: 05-28-2008

Pages: 360

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. Her book The Freezer Door is out now. Maggie Nelson says it's "a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone."

Table of Contents

Table of Contents


There's more to life than platinum: challenging the tyranny of sweatshop-produced rainbow flags and participatory patriarchy Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 1
Church, State, Acid Trips, the Merry-go-Round, Patriots, the Conspiracy, and Diapers
Dykes and Fags Want Everything: Dreaming with the Gay Liberation Front Ferd Eggan 11
Queering the Underground Daniel Burton-Rose 19
It's All About Class Tommi Avicolli Mecca 29
Sites of Resistance or Sites of Racism? Priyank Jindal 39
Fighting to Win Dean Spade 47
Gay Art Guerrillas: Interview with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman Stephen Kent Jusick 54
More Abercrombie Than Activist? Kaila Kuban Chris Grinnell 74
Choice Cuts Charlie Anders 87
Legalized Sodomy is Political Foreplay Patrick Califia 92
Queer Parents: An Oxymoron? Or Just Moronic? Stephanie Schroeder 100
Never a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride Carol Queen 105
Is Gay Marriage Racist? Marlon M. Bailey Priya Kandaswamy Mattie Udora Richardson 113
Children, the Trucks, Chainmail, Time, the Border, Skin Problems, the Feds,and the Urban Eco-Village of Your Dreams
Sylvia and Sylvia's Children: A Battle for a Queer Public Space Benjamin Shepard 123
Unsuitable for Children Gina de Vries 141
Revolting Josina Manu Maltzman 147
A Tragic Love Story, or The Love Affair As Defining Moment, or The Love Affair That Never Happened Reginald Lamar 152
Inside the Box Neil Edgar 158
Riding Radio to Choke the IMF Blake Nemec SalMonella 162
Sexing up the Conflict Query 174
Vitoligo vs. the Drapetomania Syndrome Dr. Ralowe Trinitrotoluene Ampu, DDS 188
Sex, Gender, and Letters to Myself Elias seMbessakwini 199
Piss, Transnational Capital, Lice Remover, the Piers, Mary, Dr. Laura, the Naked Truth, and Ricki Lake
Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face Rocko Bulldagger 213
Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries! Simone Chess Alison Kafer Jessi Quizar Mattie Udora Richardson 216
That Incredible Exhilaration: An Interview with Jim Eigo from The ACT UP Oral History Project Sarah Schulman 237
Fed Up Queers Jennifer Flynn Eustacia Smith 249
Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 268
Stripping for the Movement Eustacia Smith 296
Stayin' Alive: Trans Survival and Struggle on the Streets of Philadelphia Michelle O'Brien 305
Getting to the Root Jesse Heiwa 312
Corroding our Quality of Life Justin Anton Rosado 317
Dealing Discourse: Drugs and the (Re)invention of Resistance Eric Stanley 329
Bios 337
Acknowledgments 347
About the Author 349

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