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Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan (New, 1995, HC, 209 pages, Knopf)
Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan (New, 1995, HC, 209 pages, Knopf)
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New in shrink wrap. ISBN 0679423826
From Publishers Weekly
In this lucid polemic, New Republic editor Sullivan, who is gay, defines four major sets of attitudes toward homosexuality.
- Prohibitionists regard same-sex physical love as a sickness or a crime against nature, requiring cure or punishment.
- Liberationists, exemplified by historian Michel Foucault and ACT UP, regard homosexuality as a social construct defined variously by individual cultures.
- Conservatives combine private tolerance of homosexuality with public disapproval or discretion, believing that public acceptance could undermine the family.
- Liberals enmesh homosexuals in a web of rights and protections, yet their own arguments for free expression, association and contract have been turned against them.
Advocating a synthesis of the best arguments of liberals and conservatives, Sullivan calls for an end to all public discrimination against homosexuals, for equal opportunity and inclusion in the military, for unbiased teaching about homosexuality in public schools and for legalized gay and lesbian marriage. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
