Four Terrible Old Books About Homosexuality, Including 1962's Faggots to Burn

Dan82 · Sep 23, 2011

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Each Friday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State basements, thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets.

Gayness remains a thing that America freaks out over every couple of years when it can't find any real problems. This is not one of those times. Maybe it's because younger generations just don't find homosexuality offensive. Or perhaps it's that no forward-thinking state is currently doing something radical like trying to afford basic civil liberties to all citizens.

For whatever reason, even Republican presidential candidates are keeping mum about the occasional wedge issue that dare not speak its name. To remind us how far this country has come, your Crap Archivist presents this survey of terrible, wrongheaded books about homosexuality scored at California thrift stores. For brevity's sake, I have not included the books whose portrayals of gayness are the most shocking: Leviticus and DSMs I through III...

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/09/sic_four_terrible_books_about_homosexuality.php
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Four Terrible Old Books About Homosexuality, Including 1962's Faggots to Burn

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