- Hardcover: 315 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins (May 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060187611
- ISBN-13: 978-0060187613
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,574,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Popular "Out" magazine columnist Michelangelo Signorile
investigates the hot-button issues
confronting gay men today.
investigates the hot-button issues
confronting gay men today.
"Exhaustively researched, surpassingly perceptive."
-- "New York" magazine
"Life Outside bravely advances a critique of the attitudes and ideologies that have shaped the gay 'scene' and merits the attention of a broad audience for its courage and informativeness."
-- "New York Times Book Review"
"A stunning expose. Gay men should be handed three things when they come out of the closet: a box of condoms, a videocassette of George Cukor's "The Women, " and a copy of "Life Outside."
-- "The Advocate"
Michelangelo Signorile galvanized a generation of lesbians and gay men when he took on the "closets of power" in his 1992 classic "Queer in America." Now, in" Life Outside, " he offers an expose of what he calls the "cult of masculinity" within contemporary gay male culture, while finding hope and renewal in other aspects of gay life. He reveals the origins of the current obsession in much of the gay community with an impossible physical ideal and explores the malevolent commercialization of gay sex.
"Life Outside" also identifies another, more positive phenomenon in the gay male world. With the expansion of the gay movement, with more gays coming out--and remaining--in suburban, small-town, and rural America, the urban "scene" is no longer setting the standard for what it is to be gay in America. With the "deghettoization" and "deurbanization" of homosexuality, we find men who challenge long-held assumptions about being gay, relationships, and coping with growing older. With first-person accounts from men who are moving into midlife with prideand vitality, Signorile points the way for all gay men to face the passages of life with a new maturity. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Somewhere between the gays-in-the-military issue and the first discussions in the halls of Congress of same-sex marriage in early 1996, I began to receive hundreds of letters and E-mails from gay men seeking advice-or just sharing their sorrows-about problems confronting them, issues for which the president or Congress could be of little to no avail. Read the first page
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Somewhere between the gays-in-the-military issue and the first discussions in the halls of Congress of same-sex marriage in early 1996, I began to receive hundreds of letters and E-mails from gay men seeking advice-or just sharing their sorrows-about problems confronting them, issues for which the president or Congress could be of little to no avail. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I just finished Life Outside. I was pressured to read it by a friend who was moved by it and who wouldn't shut up about it. I was very impressed. There's so much here, so much that is important and prickly, the kinds of things people do not want to hear. But Signorile is very talented. He says it with soul and compassion. I was afraid to read the book when it came out. I'd followed Signorile over the years and always knew he was right even when I didn't like what he had to say. He is the gay male community's conscience and people either love him or hate him for that. Witness some of the reviews here. The pretentious academic types hate him. But he's the intellectual of the street, not of the ivory tower. He speaks his mind about gay male behavior, the politics of the gay left, the gay right, the gay community as a whole. He always points to the elephant in the room. That's why I didn't want to read Life Outside. But once I got started I was driven. The writing is crisp and wonderful. I felt compassion and I felt warmth while reading Life Outside but i also know how it could get a lot of people riled up. It's a testament to the book that it is still causing controvery a couple of years after it was first published. That's a very valuable book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Signorile chronically proves himself to be a tabloid gossip columnist who aspires to be perceived as an academic. Unfortunately, he just isn't smart enough, and his 'dissertations' read more like an eighth-grade language arts essay. One gets the feeling Signorile doesn't read or listen to others much - he spouts trite received opinion as though he finds his words profound.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a leading gay studies figure (one cited again and again in this book) commented to me privately, "Signorile is very clever at using the media, but he isn't very bright." In ten years, no one will remember this eminently forgettable book.
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Inside/Outside--Leave Me Alone!
Signorile's work is the fast food of gay studies, and with this book, he makes new strides in his efforts to turn himself into a franchise. Read more
Published on 15 July 1999
Seriously flawed and disappointing
As a gay man who has lived in NYC since the 50s I found Signorile's picture of gay male life in the Fifties and Sixties and the judgements he made about those years to be a mass... Read more
Published on 12 Mar 1999
Extraordinary
It was extraordinary to read so many of my own thoughts, ideas and observations finally put down on paper by someone who shares them. Mr. Signorile is very perceptive. Read more
Published on 22 Feb 1999
Dull, simplistic and "politically correct"
I realize that many readers find this book enlightening, especially those with no first-hand knowledge of the gay Chelsea scene in New York City, such as straight reviewers and... Read more
Published on 20 Nov 1998
An AMAZING look at life through the eyes of many gay men
Through a variety of interviews and social scenes, Signorile authors a very realistic and honest interpretation of the modern day gay lifestyle, where it's been, and where it's... Read more
Published on 18 Sep 1998
an important discussion of critical gay male issues
Signorile is not a great author, but a journalist and as such unfortunately does not do justice to his topic, the cult of masculinity. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 1998
Very insightful
I learned a great deal from this book. Signorile's insights are quite impressive. He's a perceptive chronicler of a subculture, a true social anthropologist. Read more
Published on 13 Jun 1998
A big topic of discussion
I sat on a plane recently reading this gripping book, and the man next to me said, "I've read that--you can't put it down." We talked about Signorile for quite some time. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 1998
On Target
The book hits the nail on the head. Felt like he was reading my mind. Love that kind of experience with a book. Serious stuff, big topics. Read more
Published on 22 May 1998
Provocative and challenging: Should be read by every gay man
I've been passing this book on to friends every chance I get. I think every gay man should be aware of these issues, and read Sigorile's point of view. Read more
Published on 2 May 1998
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