What happened to gay life? / Robert Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Robert, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay pride parades--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).

Gay pride parades.

Gay men--Australia--New South Wales--Social life and customs--2001-.

Gay men.

Homosexuality--Australia--New South Wales.

Homosexuality.

Gay identity.

Gay culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2002 the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras went bankrupt. It struggles on, but Gay Sydney isn't what it used to be--a shining international beacon of hedonistic homosexuality that was an economic and a political force. This very engaging book tries to find out what happened to gay life. Robert Reynolds talks to numerous gay men--some whose lives are committed to struggling for gay rights, others whose major struggle has been for the right to party and some for whom being gay is no big deal. The book raises lots of questions about what being gay means as gay life becomes mainstream.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Creating gay; 2 The outsiders; 3 Surviving the fall; 4 Courting power; 5 Mainstreaming; 6 Gay Sydney and its discontents; 7 Modernising gay life; 8 Independently gay; Conclusion; Notes on sources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-199) and index.

ISBN:

1-74223-026-1

OCLC:

476256164