Boyopolis: Sex and Politics in Gay Eastern Europe
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0879516909 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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. In one illustrated essay, German photographer Herbert List's idealized 1930s portraits of young boys along the Baltic coast serve as a springboard for Persky's free-form meditations on bodily desire and its suppression, on straight prostitution, homosexual hustling, Nazism, his Jewish heritage and working-class Chicago boyhood and the politics of gay liberation. A left-of-center journalist, he nevertheless welcomes the "economic shock therapy" of Poland's free-market plan. A professor of philosophy in Vancouver, Persky meets "enigmatic, oracular" Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, debates politics with Hungarian post-Communist thinker Miklos Haraszti and encounters artists, dissidents, die-hard communists, human rights activists. From Publishers Weekly Gay Canadian journalist Persky's travelogue, extending from Berlin to Budapest between 1989 and 1995, is primarily a firsthand, impressionistic account of the social and economic chaos and new freedoms foll
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