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Queer in America Overview

As an journalist examining Washington's, Hollywood's and New York's power structures, Signorile exposes the hypocrisy and prejudice that pervade mainstream American institutions.

He discusses his youth in Brooklyn, the gay-positive corporations of Silicon Valley, the outing controversies of the '80s and '90s, and a scandalous case of same-sex sexual harassment carried out by a powerful legislator within the halls of Congress.

This national bestseller takes the reader on a detailed, evocative, sometimes horrifying tour of the Trinity of the Closet, from the offices of New York's media elite to the inner sanctum of the Pentagon to Hollywood's glitzy studios.

With razor-sharp analysis, Signorile cuts through America's homophobia and looks to the future, offering a hopeful vision for all gay Americans.

Queer in America Contents

2003 Preface
Preface: On Naming Names
Introduction: Closets of Power

Part One: Queer in New York
1. Lights, Camera, Act Up
2. A Queer's Own Story
3. Hype Anxiety
4. Out of the Closets and into the Streets
5. Outing, Part I 

Part Two: Queer in Washington
6. Operation Out-the-Pentagon
7. Inning the Outing
8. Outing, Part II
9. All the Presidents' Queers

Part Three: Queer in Hollywood
10. Crucifixion of Zelda Gilroy
11. From McCarthy to Medved
12. Smashing the Celluloid Closet
13. Outing, Part III
14. Resurrection of Sheila Kuehl

Epilogue: Queer in America
15. The Oregon Nightmare
16. The Silicon Solution
17. A Queer Manifesto
18. Afterword to the Paperback edition (1994)
19. Queer in America 2003, with sub-chapters (2003)

Ordering Queer in America

Queer in America is available for purchase through Amazon. You can also e-mail me to make arrangements for special autographed copies.