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Virtually normal

an argument about homosexuality

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An edition of Virtually normal (1995)

Virtually normal

an argument about homosexuality

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

No issue seems to divide Western society more passionately and more deeply than homosexuality. Is homosexuality immoral? Should homosexuals be allowed to serve in the military? Should they be allowed to marry? Are gay rights special rights or civil rights? These and many other questions have roiled our politics for the last decade - and the debate is getting no calmer.

In this pathbreaking book, Andrew Sullivan, the brilliant young editor of The New Republic, takes on all these questions. Whatever your view about homosexuality, he tries to talk you out of it. Sullivan reframes the debate into four competing political positions: prohibitionist, liberationist, conservative, and liberal. He takes them on one by one, first sympathetically detailing their strengths, then relentlessly exposing their weaknesses.

At the crux of his argument is a manifesto for a new politics that can transform the way we approach the homosexual question, and many other social issues as well. Challenging to homosexuals and heterosexuals alike, its proposals are likely to stir controversy on all sides.

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Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
209

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Cover of: Virtually Normal
Virtually Normal
July 12, 1996, Picador
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Virtually Normal
Virtually Normal
September 17, 1996, Vintage
Paperback in English
Cover of: Praticamente  normali
Praticamente normali: Le ragioni dell'omosessualità
1996, Arnoldo Mondadori
Hardcover in Italian
Cover of: Virtually normal
Virtually normal: an argument about homosexuality
1996, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: Virtually normal
Virtually normal: an argument about homosexuality
1995, Alfred A. Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Virtually normal
Virtually normal: an argument about homosexuality
1995, Picador
in English

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Edition Notes

INcludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-209).

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.76/6
Library of Congress
HQ76.25 .S85 1995, HQ76.25 .S85 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 209 p. ;
Number of pages
209

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1277858M
Internet Archive
virtuallynormala00sull
ISBN 10
0679423826
LCCN
95009584, 96219394
OCLC/WorldCat
32665017
Library Thing
50756
Goodreads
1717573

First Sentence

"There are as many politics of homosexuality as there are words for it, and not all of them contain reason."

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