{"product_id":"life-outside-the-signorile-report-on-gay-men-sex-drugs-muscles-and-the-passages-of-life","title":"Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men: Sex, Drugs, Muscles, and the Passages of Life (RARE BOOKS)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePopular\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOut\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine columnist Michelangelo Signorile\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003einvestigates the hot-button issues\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003econfronting gay men today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Exhaustively researched, surpassingly perceptive.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emagazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Life Outside bravely advances a critique of the attitudes and ideologies that have shaped the gay 'scene' and merits the attention of a broad audience for its courage and informativeness.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A stunning expose. Gay men should be handed three things when they come out of the closet: a box of condoms, a videocassette of George Cukor's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Women,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand a copy of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLife Outside.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMichelangelo Signorile galvanized a generation of lesbians and gay men when he took on the \"closets of power\" in his 1992 classic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer in America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow, in Life Outside, he offers an expose of what he calls the \"cult of masculinity\" within contemporary gay male culture, while finding hope and reNewal in other aspects of gay life. He reveals the origins of the current obsession in much of the gay community with an impossible physical ideal and explores the malevolent commercialization of gay sex.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLife Outside\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealso identifies another, more positive phenomenon in the gay male world. With the expansion of the gay movement, with more gays coming out--and remaining--in suburban, small-town, and rural America, the urban \"scene\" is no longer setting the standard for what it is to be gay in America. With the \"deghettoization\" and \"deurbanization\" of homosexuality, we find men who challenge long-held assumptions about being gay, relationships, and coping with growing older. With first-person accounts from men who are moving into midlife with pride and vitality, Signorile points the way for all gay men to face the passages of life with a New maturity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clapping Pages","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45157214290106,"sku":"2PMR47THD-Used","price":99.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/5576\/0826\/files\/LifeOutsideTheSignorileReportonGayMenSex_Drugs_Muscles_andthePassagesofLife.jpg?v=1758047419","url":"https:\/\/clappingpages.com\/products\/life-outside-the-signorile-report-on-gay-men-sex-drugs-muscles-and-the-passages-of-life","provider":"Clapping Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}