Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader - Raymond Luczak
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Eyes of Desire 2:
A Deaf GLBT Reader
Raymond Luczak
6x9, 400 Pages, Trade Paper
ISBN-10: 0979881609
ISBN-13: 978-0979881602
GLBT Studies/Deaf Studies
Handtype Press
What does it mean to be a Deaf GLBT person in the world today? Over 85 Deaf and hearing people from all over the world share their stories, interviews, poems, and more in this anthology. Straight people also share their experiences. Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader features rarely-heard voices such as a Deaf Ethiopian bisexual woman, a hard-of-hearing intersexed transgender musician, a Deaf ex-gay man, a Deaf lesbian witch, a Deaf gay Asian, a Deaf lesbian FTM rock n roll drummer, an older British non-signing deaf man, a Deaf black gay HIV-positive man, a hearing partner of a Deaf transman, a Deaf gay Hispanic man, a Deaf black lesbian tomfemme pagan, a Deaf gay hearing-aid fetishist, a Deaf Hindu lesbian, a DeafBlind Jewish gay man, a Deaf straight woman with two mommies, a Deaf leather titleholder, and a Deaf lesbian with an identical twin Deaf lesbian sister. Countries include Canada, Chile, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Russia, and South Africa. Subjects cover coming out, family, identity, relationships, community, and activism.
Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of eight books. Luczak was born and raised in Ironwood, a small mining town in Michigan s Upper Peninsula. Number seven in a family of nine children, he lost much of his hearing due to double pneumonia at the age of seven months. After high school graduation, Luczak went to Gallaudet University, in Washington, DC. While there, he learned American Sign Language (ASL), became involved with the Deaf community, and won numerous scholarships in recognition of his writing. After his breakthrough essay Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer in the Christopher Street magazine in December 1990, he eventually saw seven of his books published. His first book, Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader, eventually won two Lambda Literary Award nominations (Best Lesbian and Gay Anthology, and Best Small Press Book). His other books include St. Michael s Fall: Poems, Silence is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness, and When I am Dead: The Writings of George M. Teegarden. His Deaf gay novel Men with Their Hands won a first-prize grant from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation for Full-Length Fiction 2003. The book has gone on to win first place in the Project: QueerLit 2006 Contest. Suspect Thoughts Press will publish it in 2008. He now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A Deaf GLBT Reader
Raymond Luczak
6x9, 400 Pages, Trade Paper
ISBN-10: 0979881609
ISBN-13: 978-0979881602
GLBT Studies/Deaf Studies
Handtype Press
What does it mean to be a Deaf GLBT person in the world today? Over 85 Deaf and hearing people from all over the world share their stories, interviews, poems, and more in this anthology. Straight people also share their experiences. Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader features rarely-heard voices such as a Deaf Ethiopian bisexual woman, a hard-of-hearing intersexed transgender musician, a Deaf ex-gay man, a Deaf lesbian witch, a Deaf gay Asian, a Deaf lesbian FTM rock n roll drummer, an older British non-signing deaf man, a Deaf black gay HIV-positive man, a hearing partner of a Deaf transman, a Deaf gay Hispanic man, a Deaf black lesbian tomfemme pagan, a Deaf gay hearing-aid fetishist, a Deaf Hindu lesbian, a DeafBlind Jewish gay man, a Deaf straight woman with two mommies, a Deaf leather titleholder, and a Deaf lesbian with an identical twin Deaf lesbian sister. Countries include Canada, Chile, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Russia, and South Africa. Subjects cover coming out, family, identity, relationships, community, and activism.
Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of eight books. Luczak was born and raised in Ironwood, a small mining town in Michigan s Upper Peninsula. Number seven in a family of nine children, he lost much of his hearing due to double pneumonia at the age of seven months. After high school graduation, Luczak went to Gallaudet University, in Washington, DC. While there, he learned American Sign Language (ASL), became involved with the Deaf community, and won numerous scholarships in recognition of his writing. After his breakthrough essay Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer in the Christopher Street magazine in December 1990, he eventually saw seven of his books published. His first book, Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader, eventually won two Lambda Literary Award nominations (Best Lesbian and Gay Anthology, and Best Small Press Book). His other books include St. Michael s Fall: Poems, Silence is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness, and When I am Dead: The Writings of George M. Teegarden. His Deaf gay novel Men with Their Hands won a first-prize grant from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation for Full-Length Fiction 2003. The book has gone on to win first place in the Project: QueerLit 2006 Contest. Suspect Thoughts Press will publish it in 2008. He now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
