HALPERIN, David M. "Cómo ser gay"Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2017, 515 pp. ISBN 978-84-1678-651-0
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ISSN: 2174-6753
Year of publication: 2017
Issue Title: Estratificación Social y Nuevas Desigualdades
Issue: 14
Type: Book review
More publications in: Encrucijadas: Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales
Abstract
"How to be gay," the latest book by historian of sexuality David Halperin, has become the center of heated debates at many levels around the value and validity of cultural identities and 'gay' subjectivities. The book defends a controversial thesis: there is certainly something that we could define as a gay consciousness or subjectivity that is formed in interaction with dominant cultures and gender roles and has little or nothing to do with effective practice Of sexuality. This subjectivity constitutes a set of cultural references that not all the world communicates, but which are generally accepted as representative of gay, both affectively, culturally or mediatically.