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More than 400 years ago, 16th-century philosopher Michel Eyquem de Montaigne notable that, "Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the quintessence."

The 30 writers in Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's latest anthology, "Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?" offers a open and searing confirmation of de Montaigne's observation. As they assess the lesbian, gay, AC/DC, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) movement's transition away from the out-in-the-passage celebrations of queer difference that were common in the 1970s and 80s, they turn a emphasize on those sidelined by the rush toward respectability and almost-like-straight-world sameness that has dominated the agenda for more than a decade.

Sycamore assails the switch as a move into the "cozy-corporate," and writes that she hopes the anthology will "reinvent the incense, flamboyance, and subversion once thriving in gay subcultures in order to imagine something iffy and lovely: An exploration of the perils of assimilation; a call for accountability; a vision for silver.

Source: truthout

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