Queerly Classed: Gay Men & Lesbians Write About Class

This collection of thoughtful, courageous, and honest essays explores the intersections of class background, social status, and "queerness," challenging the often narrow and rigid definition of gay and lesbian community. Queerly Classed highlights the voices of those whose experiences of class-combined with race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and age to explode stereotypes of queers aspiring to assimilate into the mainstream of the American middle class.

• Author
• Susan Raffo, Eli Clare

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 268

• Publisher
• South End Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780896085619

• Genres
• queer, class, lgbt, essays

• Release date
• 1999