If this were written in the mainstream media would we consider it homophobic? Quite possibly, but as I read it and the chapter as a whole I just thought ‘this isn’t me, in fact, this isn’t any gay man I know’. The way gay men are described in the above paragraph just smacks of lazy stereotyping to me. I’m only 20 or so pages in and I’m annoyed! Now I don’t doubt the book will provide some useful tips as I delve further into it and despite it already annoying me deeply I will finish it eventually! So why am I annoyed? I have recently started reading The Velvet Rage following recommendations online and having recently read Matthew Todd’s really engaging book Straight Jacket, a book that draws on Alan Downs’ classic.
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