In Solidarity Friendship, Family, and Activism Beyond Gay and Straight [Hardcover]

In Solidarity: Friendship, Family, and Activism Beyond Gay and Straightshows what being an ally (in this case to LGBTQ+ persons and communities) requires, means, and does. Through prose, poetry, performance text, and film, the work takes readers inside relationships across sexual orientation and serves as an exemplar of activist scholarship. In Solidarity makes a unique and compelling contribution to courses on LGBTQ+ studies, sexualities, gender, identity, relationships, or the family.

Part I: Going Home: Gay Mens Identities, Families, and Communities 1: Dont Ask, Dont Tell: Coming Out in an Alcoholic Family 2: Fathers Blessing: Ethnographic Drama, Poetry, and Prose 3: Passings 4: Revisiting Don/ovan Part II: Loving Friends, Just Friends: Emotions, Ethics, and Politics of Ally-LGBTQ+ Relationships 5: Remembering a Cool September: Pain, Prejudice, and Patriotism 6: State of Unions: Politics and Poetics of Performance 7: Deadline: Ethics and the Ethnographic Divorce 8: Build a Bridge Out of Her 9: Wedding Album: An Anti-Heterosexist Performance Text 10: In Solidarity: Collaborations in LGBTQ+ Activism, co-authored with Kathryn L. Norsworthy

Lisa Tillmanns In Solidary: Friendship, Family, and Activism Beyond Gay and Straightis an impassioned, poetic, and beautifully compelling call to be an ally in the struggle for racial, class, national, religious, ableist, gender and queer equality. A valuable resource for teachers, students, and activists in Communication, LGBTQ+ , Gender, and Womens Studies, Cultural Studies, In Solidarityembodies the personal, relational, and political commitment to social justice that it seeks to inspire in us all.

-Stacy Holman Jones, Communication Studies, California State University, Northridge

Tillmann's excellent book explains qualitative methods such as autoethnography, interviewing, and participant observation, by offering compl"