"Finally," says Michael Cunningham, "a writer and critical thinker has treated queerness with true insight, and proper respect for its complexities and contradictions. Thank you, Suzanna Walters, for bringing so much rigor and balance; such ardent, subtle questioning; such respect for genuine human rights to the horrifically over-simplified term, 'tolerance.'"
Notably, Suzanna Walters announced her fourth book, The Tolerance Trap [and Kindle] with the stronger, shorter subtitle "What's Wrong with Gay Rights" but NYU publishes it today with this longer, blander yawn-bait: "How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality."
Don't let marketing by committee drive you away from a book we need. Leila Rupp says, "Walters has a wicked sense of humor, and in The Tolerance Trap she wields it to argue against tolerance. This is a beautifully written and provocative brief for the integration of queer difference in U.S. society. Combining personal stories with analysis of popular culture, public opinion, movement activism, and trends in gay life today, Walters evaluates where we are in this contemporary moment, showing that we have both come a long way and have a long way to go. And tolerance, she insists, is not the way to get there. After reading this book, you'll never want to be tolerated again."
Eve Ensler says the book "brilliantly and boldly goes where few have gone before. It rattles the cage of tolerance in pursuit of true gay liberation. For gays and straights alike, it challenges us to be more our quirky, original, sexual gorgeous selves and to settle for nothing less than radical love and freedom."
You may remember Walters' other queer book, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America.
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