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Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars
Is it the uniforms? The always flattering navy blue of a seaman’s uniform? The adventurous khaki of a soldier in the desert? Or might it be the rituals of military life, the sado-masochistic infliction of rules and tortuous drills, which drive today’s gays and lesbians to insist and now celebrate that they are soon to be allowed to serve freely and openly in the military?
The second Against Equality anthology gathers together pieces by contemporary radical voices critical of the mainstream gay community's uncritical approach to Don't Ask Don't Tell. It features an introduction by the inimitable Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and essays by her and writers from our digital archives on LGBT investments in militarism. This archival anthology asks why the historically left/radical anti-war critique of war does not extend to DADT and the issue of queers in the military.
Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars provides hitherto unavailable set of critiques of a subject that has rarely been approached with as much candor and nuance. Defying the prescriptive logic of “gay is good” that permeates mainstream gay politics, it seeks to interrogate the place of the military in a queer imagining of the world and simultaneously challenges the mainstream left to question its signing on to damaging militarism of contemporary gay politics.
The book will be available in October 2011 from our distributor, AK Press.
selected praise and reviews for our first anthology:
- Working Against Equality: A Closer Look at Queers Who Oppose Gay Marriage | The Good Men Project, April 21, 2011.
- “'Equality' beyond marriage - An interview with activist Ryan Conrad” | Seattle Gay News, April 2, 2011.
- BiblioBitch: Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage | Bitch Media: January 20, 2011.
- Not All Gay Activists Support Gay Marriage | The Daily Caller: January 4, 2011.
- Time Out Chicago interview | Oct. 6, 2010.
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