Mattilda Bernstein SycamoreWhy Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform

I learned SO MUCH from this book! It's crazy how people across the world go through the exact same things you do or they think the exact same way that you do. This book teaches you so much about the gay community and how it affects everyone around it or in the community; how even though you are apart of your own community, you can still feel totally disconnected from everyone else who is just like you.

I loved this book because it showed a broad spectrum of contemporary LGBTQ identities. The book deals with gender, race, globalization, and technology. You also have first hand accounts on people's personal experiences with being homosexual/transexual. The stories are short enough to keep you interested and each story can be read independently. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to gain a broader perspective of LGBTQ issues today

I think this is a great collection of essays that really helped me understand the "fem" side of gay culture. In a community that has somewhat been taken over by the mainstream world, this book allowed me to reconnect with the deeper issues that still exist below the surface.

This book is composed of many short stories that illustrates the lives of gay, lesbian, and trans people. It highlights many topics in the gay community, including advocating, sex slavery, and transwomanhood. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in getting it.

Loved, Loved this book, loved all of the stories, studies, thoughts and anecdotes, I remember reading this book and laughing out loud because of the humor and candor in some places, who highly recommend to anyone

It's an amazing collection of "marginalized sexual beings" points of view, mind-blowing, provocative and all of them written with the warmth of a conversation rather than with the coldness of academical articles.

I liked most of the stories, but some were somewhat too sexually out into to left field. However, for the most part I enjoyed the deepness of the stories and their truthfulness.

For historians or professors of American sexuality, this book offers several pieces that would resonate with technologically-obsessed students today. Perhaps it lacks some intellectual depth and hard analysis, but it offers a wide array of perspectives about queer-on-queer interactions that are very much "of this moment." In that respect, you could pick it up and read it within a sitting.