Queer Intentions / A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture
Abraham, Amelia
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- Author
- Abraham, Amelia
- Publisher
- Pan MacMillan
- ISBN
- 9781509866175
- Language
- English
- Condition notes
- 2020, 336 pp, paperback
- Category
- Textbooks › Sexuality
About this book
This compelling, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey to explore the pros and cons, the myths and the reality of life for LGBTQ+ people today. Nominated for the 2020 Polari First Book Prize: ‘This book is eloquent, empathetic and passionate, and will resonate not only with a new generation of queer people, but also with anyone who wants to be their ally. A brilliant book.’ - Owen Jones, author of *The Establishment* Today, the opportunities and freedoms available to LGBTQ+ people in the West are greater than ever before. But are same-sex marriage, increased visibility in the media and support from the business world really as rosy as they seem? At what cost does this acceptance come? And who is left behind, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ rights have not yet progressed so far? By combining fearless journalism with her own personal experiences, Amelia Abraham sets out in *Queer Intentions* to find answers to these pressing challenges, as well as to explore the broader question of what it means to be queer today. With curiosity, humour and disarming candour, Amelia takes the reader on a thought-provoking and entertaining journey. Join her as she is moved by the first same-sex wedding in Britain, loses herself in the world’s largest drag convention in LA, marches in Pride parades across Europe, visits both a transgender modelling agency and the Anti-Violence Project in New York to understand the extremes of contemporary trans life, parties in the clubs of Turkey’s underground LGBTQ+ scene, and meets a genderless family in progressive Stockholm.