Blue, too: more writing by (for or about) working-class queers / edited by Wendell Ricketts.


[Place of publication not identified] : FourCats Press, 2014.
Added to CLICnet on 11/24/2014


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Notes:

  • Sequel to Everything I have is blue : short fiction by working class men about more-or-less gay life / edited by Wendell Ricketts (San Francisco : Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005).
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • SECTION I. Foreword — Flowers, flames / C. Bard Cole — My blue midnights / Rane Arroyo — There are no pretty girls at the tabernacle / Marcel Devon — Skins / Rick Laurent Feely — Financial aid / Wendell Ricketts — Men without bliss / Rigoberto González — Middle-class drag: a performance piece / Renny Christopher — Anyway, it’s not like things could get much worse / Andrej Longo — Heaven / Royston Tester — Austin / Robby Nadler — Hooters, tooters, and the big dog / Timothy Anderson — Fragments from an autobiography / John Gilgun — Lowest of the low / Keith Banner — Bleeding toy boys / Dean Durber — Red vs. blue / Tara Hardy — advancedELVIScourse / CAConrad — Walls / L.A. Fields — Saving / Carter Sickels — My special friend / Christopher Lord — Boys at the Rodeo / Judy Grahn — About the contributors — Class/mates: further outings in the literatures and cultures of the ga(y)ted community: an afterword.
  • SECTION II. A blue study: the reader’s writer’s, and scholar’s guide to Blue, too: more writing by (for or about) working-class queers / Wendell Ricketts — Classing queer and queering class: reading class in Blue, too — Blue, too: overall themes — Flowers, flames — My blue midnights — There are no pretty girls at the tabernacle — Skins — Financial aid — Men without bliss — Middle-class drag: a performance piece — Anyway, it’s not like things could get much worse — Heaven — Austin — Hooters, tooters, and the big dog — Fragments from an autobiography — Lowest of the low — Bleeding toy boys — Red vs. blue — advancedELVIScourse — Walls — Saving — My special friend — Boys at the rodeo.
  • SECTION III. Reading blue: an annotated bibliography / Wendell Rickets — Fiction, poetry & theatre — Memoirs, biography & autobiography — Essays, cultural studies & reportage — Academic considerations of queers & class — Perspectives on history, literature, art & media — The ‘gay market,’ affluence/income, consumerism & gentrification — Capitalism & the Left, labor studies, poverty/economic justice issues — Film, TV & video — Web sites — LGBTQ literature: a few basics — Working-class studies: places to start — General working-class fiction, memoir & anthologies.

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