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In Solidarity: Friendship, Family, and Activism Beyond Gay and Straight shows 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.
List of contents
Part I: Going Home: Gay Men’s Identities, Families, and Communities 1: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Coming Out in an Alcoholic Family 2: Father’s 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
About the author
Lisa M. Tillmann, Ph.D., is an activist researcher, social justice documentary filmmaker, and professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies, a program she founded at Rollins College. She has participated in numerous activist initiatives, many centering on LGBTQ+ civil rights. She authored the book, Between Gay and Straight: Understanding Friendship across Sexual Orientation, produced the film Weight Problem: Cultural Narratives of Fat and "Obesity," and co-produced the films Off the Menu: Challenging the Politics and Economics of Body and Food and Remembering a Cool September.
