Argues that irrational fear and hatred of homosexuals has clouded the issue of gay rights, and suggests that gays, for the most part, share the common values of all Americans.

"Any serious consideration of gay life from now on will have to reckon with the mature and extraordinary writers whose work has been brought together for the first time in Beyond Queer. Edited and introduced by critic Bruce Bawer, this important collection serves as the clarion call of a new gay intelligentsia who are unbound by the lockstep formulas and hollow rhetoric of the past, and who are determined to think honestly and independently about...