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Journeys Toward a Sexual S e If BROWNING RANK By thi; bi:S i-si lung au hor oi Iiii Cui uRi or Disiri i i BOdlOiV PilSLIC LIBfI/iflY Copley Square V. J . • ) 4 Queer Geography other books by Frank Browning The Culture of Desire The American Way of Crime (coauthor) The Land VatiisJiiug A Geography Journeys Toward a Sexual Self Revised Edition Frank Browning The Noonday Press Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York — The Noonday Press ivision ofFarrar, Straus and Giroux 19 Union SquareWest, NewYork 10003 Copyright © 1996 by Frank Browning Revised edition © 1998 by Frank Browning All rights reserved Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. Printed in the United States ofAmerica Designed by Leonard Henderson First Noonday paperback edition, 1998 Reprinted by arrangement with Crown Publishers, Inc. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Browning, Frank. A queer geography journeys toward a sexual sell / Frank — : Browning. Rev. ed. cm. p. Originally published: NewYork Crown, ©1996. ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-374-52542-0 (alk. paper pbk.) — —: 1. Gays Identity. 2. Gay men se.xual behavior. 3. Gay men Psychology. 1. Title. HQ76.B833 1998 306.76'62—dc21 97-36600 We are grateful for permission to reprint from the tollowing; m “Death A Fame,” by Allen Ginsberg. Originally published The NewYorker. © Copyright 1997 by Allen Ginsberg. Reprinted by permission otTheWylie Agency. For Gene Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/queergeographyjoOObrow_0 acknowledgments Many friends, colleagues, companions, and interviewees have given both their time and their imaginations to help me make this book. It is not possible to specify exactly what each person contributed. Often a twenty-minute conversation helped to redirect my imagi- native curiosity as much as several months of reading and inter- viewing. More than any project to date, this book has propelled me into a series of evolving self-inquiries that have led me to reformu- late my own understanding of the social meanings of sexuality. By simply watching how succeeding generations of homosexual men and women read the literature and culture ofsexuality that has gone before them, have had firsthand instruction in the malleability of I sexual identities. My time spent with new friends in Naples has made inescapably obvious how history and geography form it widely varying sexual meanings and aesthetics that do not easily conform to any particular political program. While none of the following people bears any responsibility for my expressed ideas and arguments, all have contributed valuable in- sights and criticisms: Kevin Ayyildiz, Adam Block, Sean Collins, Francesco Durante, Steven Friedman, Peggy Chrshman, Fred Hertz, Fenton Johnson,Judith Levine,Jean McGuire, Michael O’Laughlin, Claudio Fellone, Marcello Bersico, Raul Ramirez, Scott Sherer, Sharon Silva, Carl Strange, Nina Sutton, John Tambernino, Braden Toan, Frank Viviano, Brenda Wilson, PatYollm, Steven Zeeland. also owe particular thanks to Jeffrey Escoffier and Ciene Kahn, 1 who gave me detailed criticism as the manuscript grew, and to )avid Groff, who pushed me to undertake the book and who of- I fered always valuable intellectual and editorial advice along the way. Michael Denneny, my editor, is what any writer wants most, a tough-minded ally who never relinquishes the push for clarity.
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