Gay Conservatives: Group Consciousness and Assimilation (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies)
by Kenneth Cimino
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Author: Kenneth CiminoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-01
ISBN: 1560236094
Number of pages: 162
Publisher: Routledge
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Book Review: 25 Per Cent
Summary: 4 Stars
Cimino, Kenneth W. "Gay Conservatives: Group Consciousness and Assimilation", The Haworth Press, 2007.
25 Per Cent
Amos Lassen
Most GLBT people consider themselves to be liberal yet nearly 25% of us voted for George W. Bush in 2004. Who are these people and why in the world did they vote the way they did? "Gay Conservatives" looks why conservative GLBT people join political groups and also support political candidates that do not support much less favor the policies that benefit our community and in many cases they are our adversaries. This book looks at how the impact of group consciousness on conservative GLBTs and how political power is affected by it.
I did not think that this book had much to say to me when I first began reading but the more I read the more engrossed I became. I learned a great deal about politics and was amazed at the sophistication research that went into the writing of this work. It tries very hard to answer the mystery of how some of us could vote Republican and for a party that seems to treat us with such disdain. Like many others I was stunned to learn that members of the gay community had embraced a political stance that is the opposite of its own best interests. What I learned and what I should have realized and understood is that we are just like everybody else and that is not only sexuality that contributes to political standards. We must also take into account religious, economic and ethnic factors and see how they contribute to how someone aligns himself with conservatism. It seems that those who come from backgrounds in which they have been oppressed to a degree take that above sexual orientation into account and they are more likely to advocate for change. They understand that by doing so that they must also accept and embrace as well as expose their sexual lives.
This little book shows how the mind of the conservative works and what is responsible for that working. Before reading this I found the gay conservative to be a traitor but now I understand just a little more than I did before. It will be even more interesting to see how all of this plays out in the long run.
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