Jeffrey Escoffier





Jeffrey Escoffier

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Jeffrey Escoffier writes on glbtq history, politics, culture, sexuality, music, and dance. One of the founders of OUT/LOOK: National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly, he has published widely. Among his books are American Homo: Community and Perversity and a biography of John Maynard Keynes in the Chelsea House series on the Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians. He co-edited (with Matthew Lore) Mark Morris' L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration and also edited is Sexual Revolution, an anthology of writing on sex from the 1960s and 1970s. In 2009, he published Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore. He is currently on the board of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at The City University of Ne...more


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Bigger Than Life: The Histo...
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American Homo
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John Maynard Keynes (Paperbk)
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“Patton argues that the lesbian and gay movement and the Religious Right have focused on each other, which has helped both groups to consolidate their internal identities. They have each publicly disidentified with the other, which makes the two movements "allies" in a sense, or perhaps more accurately "codependents.”
Jeffrey Escoffier, American Homo



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