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some of these essays r fire n some of these essays r mid..... still interesting n i love reading so many different queer voices

hmmm. the introduction was good but many of the selections have been disappointing (underdeveloped?)

The clean and healthy are often the ones who crave it raw. HIV-positives, the druggies, the sexual radicals are often erected as sexual terrorists marching armed dicks in hand, shooting into a place filled with innocent bystanders. We annihilate all illusion of what is right, pure and beautiful in gay spaces. Our reality is a garish, bloated, complicated pinata you head towards with your little stick.

Overall, the human condition is lonely and greedy; we will always find ways to bend nature over and fuck with it.

I am saying that as a result of a virus our communities and cultures became suspicious of risk -fearful of risk- and sought safety, either perceived or real. And most of us thought that safety couldn't be a bad thing- but perhaps we forgot about the benefits and advantages that risk-taking had brought us.

And in our survival, we win small victories against all-encompassing systems that would rather see us decompose and die.

Under neoliberal social ethics, human relationships, like the economic market, are left to laws of competition and individual gain.

I knew I could not rely on the police for any safety, or to address any violence done to me; in fact, they might cause me more harm.

As the movement for sexual and gender revolution is hijacked by a narrow call to conform to capitalist hetero-patriarchal core, the lives and aspirations of millions of human beings deemed "illegal" or simply unwanted are torn apart my imperialist regimes across the globe.

Each essay in this is a hit after hit!

What’s really troubling is that these themes are promoted under the guise of “love”. It’s kind of sick and a warped method of distorting the personal wants of the few as a means to advocate on the behalf, falsely, of the many.

With that in mind this book awfully dangerous and irresponsible. I am going to finish it in order to give it a fair shake but at this point I am deeply concerned about several things.

This book advocates for some of the worst social norms I have ever heard- willful unsafe sex practices, drug use, my spying and racism, abuse, trauma centric foundations in relationships etc.

Mid way check in, not a usual thing for me to do. I wanted to offer an update in case anyone that has read this book before understands where I am on it.

I acknowledge that this collection of essays was constructed in 2012 and they are, in fact, the personal beliefs, understandings, and/or finding of the authors.

An utterly fabulous title belies a rather disappointing book.

This is making me very happy.

I've actually finished reading this book; I'm just not sure what I want to say about it yet. I might reread before reviewing.

I'm not digging this one as much as Nobody Passes, but it has some interesting pieces.

Why does Goodreads think this 214-page book has 232 pages? It's messing with my progress stats!