That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
If you don’t believe in marriage, as I don’t, for gays, straights or anyone, that’s reason enough to go out and pick up the Summer 2005 issue of Bitch Magazine and not feel like you’re the only one who couldn’t really care less about the fight for gay marriage while reading their interview with Matt Bernstein Sycamore, editor of That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. (Maybe I should have made that sentence a little longer.)

Also, check out Bitch’s book review of Becoming: Young Ideas On Gender, Identity, And Sexuality under archives/search in “Bitch Reads, Spring 2005.”

Becoming: Young Ideas On Gender, Identity, And Sexuality

Excerpt:

“We grew older, stronger, weaker apart, in love, love, love,” writes Lauren Eve in “Cherie,” one of the more than 60 essays, poems, and interviews in Diane Anderson-Minshall and Gina de Vries’s brash new anthology of writings by queer youth. In under three pages, “Cherie” quickly captures the adrenaline-fueled intensity of being a young adult—the craving for adventure, the rapid cycling between elation and despair, the pleasure and pain of being love-struck—with striking self-awareness: “Money, grades, parents, friends; it all flew out the window…. Underage, underloved. We were clichés and above it all and flying with wings spread so far it was easy to lose control and easy to soar and easy to nose-dive.” The writers in Becoming aren’t the teen set you see in mainstream media: They struggle with family, addiction, abuse, and school, but all with the added complication of being queer. Anderson-Minshall and de Vries have assembled a remarkable collection of new queer voices that soar, like the speaker in Eve’s poem, precariously high.