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Summary: THE TIMES REVIEW
Review: "The contributors take issue with the coercive nature of prevailing gay orthodoxies, pointing out that oppression and prejudice do not become legitimate simply because they happen to be practised by the previously oppressed.' - The Times, London- The Times
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Summary: LONDON SPECTATOR REVIEW
Review: "The essays gathered in anti-gay represent the earliest onslaught by the new guerrillas and petroleuses of what might be termed the post-gay era, savaging imported american pc pieties, lambasting the sex-and-shopping body-fascism of gay clubland ....in some niftily subversive snips at the barbed wire along the hetero-homo divide. Their leader is the brilliantly buccaneering Mark Simpson whose opening parodic monologue 'Gay Dream Believer' satanically debases the coinage of substance abusing disco-chic.' - Jonathan Keates, The Spectator, 1996
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Summary: THE FIRST AND THE BEST - Seattle Stranger Review
Review: "THIS BOOK DESERVED ALL THE GALLONS OF INK WASTED ON MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE, GABRIEL ROTELLO, DANIEL HARRIS ET AL. - D. Travers Scott 'The Seattle Stranger'
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Summary: PRAISE AND CONDEMNATION FOR 'ANTI-GAY'
Review: 'ANTI-GAY HAS DIVIDED THE HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNITY' - TheIndependent 'THE YEAR'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL BOOK - BBC Radio5 'AN INTELLECTUAL ENEMA FOR TODAY'S MENTALLY CONSTIPATED GAY GENERATION' - Tribune 'I ALMOST HATE TO AGREE WITH ANYTHING SIMPSON HAS TO SAY....' - London Review of Books 'SIMPSON'S COLLECTION READS AS IF YOU HAVE STUMBLED INTO A SPIRITED, RATHER SUBVERSIVE DINNER PARTY' - The Tablet 'THE ESSAYS GATHERED IN ANTI-GAY REPRESENT THE EARLIEST ONSLAUGHT BY THE NEW GUERRILLAS AND PETROLEUSES OF WHAT MIGHT BE TERMED THE POST-HOMOSEXUAL ERA, SAVAGING IMPORTED AMERICAN PC PIETIES, LAMBASTING THE SEX-AND-SHOPPING BODY-FASCISM OF GAY CLUBLAND AND CANING THE INSISTENT BRAINLESSNESS OF QUEER BABY-BOOMERS, BUT DEDICATED ALSO, IT SEEMS, TO TRASHING THE SACRED EXCLUSIVENESS OF FAGGOT IDENTITY IN SOME NIFTILY SUBVERSIVE SNIPS AT THE BARBED WIRE ALONG THE HETERO-HOMO DIVIDE. THEIR LEADER IS THE BRILLIANTLY BUCCANEERING MARK SIMPSON WHOSE OPENING PARODIC MONOLOGUE 'GAY DREAM BELIEVER' SATANICALLY DEBASES THE COINAGE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSING DISCO-CHIC' - Jonathan Keates, The Spectator 'MY CHORTLES STARTLED NOT ONLY MYSELF BUT SEVERAL FELLOW PASSENGERS' - Scotsgay 'DARING... PROCATIVE' - Lambda Book Report 'RECKLESS' - Genre 'DANGEROUS' - Gay Times 'ACID' - Bay Area Reporter ACID' The Guardian 'LEFTIST' - Out 'MARK SIMPSON... IMBUES THE BOOK WITH THE VAPID APPEAL OF A COMPASSIONLESS MARGARET THATCHER' - City Life 'SIMPSON IS FAR TOO MUCH A MAVERICK AND TOO ACERBIC' - Diva 'MARK SIMPSON... COMES ACROSS AS UNACCOUNTABLY SMUG' - The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review 'EVERTHING SIMPSON SAYS IS TRUE. WHAT'S MORE, HE'S FUNNY' - Têtu, Paris 'THE OVERWHELMING CYNICISM OF MARK SIMPSON IS QUITE FRIGHTENING COMING FROM SOMEONE SO YOUNG' - Gay & Lesbian Humanist 'SIMPSON IS A C**T' - Boyz 'ARTICULATE AND WITTY... TO TRADITIONAL GAY FUNDAMENTALISTS MARK SIMPSON IS THE ANTI-CHRIST' - Vogue 'THE CONTRIBUTORS TAKE ISSUE WITH THE COERCIVE NATURE OF PREVAILING GAY ORTHODOXIES, POINTING OUT THAT OPPRESSION AND PREJUDICE DO NOT BECOME LEGITIMATE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAPPEN TO BE PRACTISED BY THE PREVIOUSLY OPPRESSED' - The Times 'WHEN I WAS READING IT, I JUST KEPT THINKING: THANK F***ING GOD SOMEONE DID THIS, BECAUSE THE CULTURE WE'VE CREATED IS KILLING US... WHATEVER HAPPENED TO OUR INDIVIDUALITY, OUR DIFFERENCES? GAY CULTURE HAS JUST BECOME THIS BIG PINK... THING, WHICH MAKES ME WANT TO PUKE' - Aiden Shaw, Time Out New York
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Summary: PRESS CUTTINGS
Review: ANTI-GAY Ed Mark Simpson (Cassell, 1996)
'ANTI-GAYhas divided the homosexual community' - The Independent 'The year'smost controversial book' - BBC Radio 5 'An intellectual enema fortoday's mentally constipated gay generation.' - Tribune 'I almost hate to agree with anything Simpson has to say' - London Review of Books 'Simpson's collection reads as if you have stumbled into a spirited, rather subversive dinner party' - The Tablet 'The essays gathered in Anti-Gay represent the earliest onslought by the new guerrillas and petroleuses of what might be termed the Post-Homosexual Era, savaging imported American PC pieties, blasting the sex-and-shopping body fascism of gay clubland and caning the insistent brainlessness of queer baby-boomers, but dedicated also, it seems, to trashing the sacred exclusiveness of faggot identity in some niftily subversive snips at the barbed wire along the hetero-homo divide. Their leader is the brilliantly buccaneering Mark Simpson whose opening parodic monologue 'Gay Dream Believer' satanically debases the coinage of substance-abusing disco-chic.' - Jonathan Keates, The Spectator 'My chortles startled not only myself but several fellow passengers.' - Scotsgay 'Worth it for the Bruce LaBruce/Glennda Orgasm contribution alone.' - Attitude 'Daring... provocative' - Lambda Book Report 'Reckless' - Genre 'Dangerous' - Gay Times 'Acid' - Bay Area Reporter 'Acid' - The Guardian 'Leftist' - Out 'Mark Simpson... imbues the book with the vapid appeal of a compassionless Margaret Thatcher' - City Life 'Simpson is far too much a maverick and too acerbic' - Diva 'Mark Simpson... comes across as unaccountably smug' - The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review 'Everything Simpson says is true. What's more, he's funny.' - Tˆtu, Paris 'The overwhelming cynicism of Mark Simpson is quite frightening coming from one so young.' - Gay & Lesbian Humanist 'Simpson is a cunt' - Boyz
'The contributors take issue with the coercive nature of prevailing gay orthodoxies, pointing out that oppression and prejudice do not become legitimate simply because they happen to be practised by the previously oppressed.' - The Times 'When I was reading it, I just kept thinking, Thank God someone did this, because the culture we've created is killing us.... Whatever happened to our individuality, our differences? Gay culture has just become this big pink... thing, which makes me want to puke.' - Aiden Shaw, Time Out New York
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Summary: Homophobes, beware ...
Review: Bad news for homophobes: we Homosexuals are going to conquer your ignorance and stupidity. One day our time will come. I know it.
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Summary: Please read a book before you "review" it
Review: faeryboy@yahoo.com (see review below) has obviously not read this book or he would not have written what he did. Not only didn't he read the book but he didn't even bother to read the reviews listed here or he would have gathered that this book was not homophobic but a self-critique of the gay suburban culture by gay men and women. It is quite a feat to attack the supposed ignorance of others while flamboyantly parading your own but faeryboy manages to do it.
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Summary: A book for the 21st Century
Review: Finally, I book to take on the "Gay Orthodoxy" of the 70' and 80' and the nihilism of the 90's.I am not surprised that our self styled "Gay leaders" are offended.
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Summary: JACKET BLURB
Review: Have you ever wondered (to yourself, in private... Why most gay culture is mediocre trash? What happens to a gay activist who takes the gay propaganda of 'celbrating diversity' seriosly and sleeps with a member of the OPPOSITE sex? Why being gay is like being a member of a religious cult, except not so open-minded? Whether the closet is perhaps not such an awful places as you've been led to believe? If so, then it's OK. You're not alone any more. ANTI-GAY is the shameful anti-dote to feel-good politics that will give you the strength to tell the world you're not glad to be gay after all.
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Summary: Anti-Gay, Anti-Schmay
Review: I was excited about what this book had proposed, a big slap in the face of the moribund state of Gay Culture (coming soon to a circuit party near you!) However, tiresome political essays and bland essays make this book sound more like a rambling bitch fest. They (the various authors spotlight a lot problems with the so-called gay community but don't offer much to put in it's place. For a book that attempts to smack the politically correct around the head and neck, it retains it own precarious sense of political correctness.
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