Cleaning Up Good: The New Gay Conservatism
Andrew Utter
Paul Robinson's study Queer Wars maps out the emergence, over the last twenty years, of public intellectuals who are gay and who can in some sense be seen as conservative. This combination of gay and conservative makes for a landscape of shifting sands, to say the least. It has long been known that politics can make for strange bedfellows, but the alliances and misalliances in which these thinkers are enmeshed may count as some of the strangest. Robinson makes for a steady, thoughtful Virgil who guides the reader through the treacherous terrain with a laudable balance of analytical rigor, sympathy,...
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