Virtually Normal
Author: Sullivan, Andrew
ISBN: 9780679746140
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 17 Sep 1996
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
No subject has divided contemporary America more bitterly than homosexuality.Addressing the full range of the debate in this pathbreaking book, Andrew Sullivan, the former editor of b>The New Republic/b>, restores both reason and humanity to the discussion over how a predominantly heterosexual society should deal with its homosexual citizens.br>br>Sympathetically yet relentlessly, Sullivan assesses the prevailing public positions on homosexuality--from prohibitionist to liberationist and from conservative to liberal.In their place, he calls for a politics of homosexuality that would guarantee the rights of gays and lesbians without imposing tolerance.At once deeply personal and impeccably reasoned, written with elegance and wit, b>Virtually Normal/b> will challenge readers of every persuasion; no book is more likely to transform out sexual politics in the coming decades.
ISBN: 9780679746140
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 17 Sep 1996
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
No subject has divided contemporary America more bitterly than homosexuality.Addressing the full range of the debate in this pathbreaking book, Andrew Sullivan, the former editor of b>The New Republic/b>, restores both reason and humanity to the discussion over how a predominantly heterosexual society should deal with its homosexual citizens.br>br>Sympathetically yet relentlessly, Sullivan assesses the prevailing public positions on homosexuality--from prohibitionist to liberationist and from conservative to liberal.In their place, he calls for a politics of homosexuality that would guarantee the rights of gays and lesbians without imposing tolerance.At once deeply personal and impeccably reasoned, written with elegance and wit, b>Virtually Normal/b> will challenge readers of every persuasion; no book is more likely to transform out sexual politics in the coming decades.
