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Icelandic Lives: The Queer Experience
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by Voon Chin Phua
Sales Rank: 4781597
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 150 pages
Published by: RoutledgeEdition: 1st Edition September 10, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1560232668
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1560232667
Book Dimensions:
8.6 x 6 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 12.8 ounces
Product Description
Examine the everyday lives of gay and lesbian Icelanders!
Icelandic Lives: The Queer Experience explores the experiences of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in Iceland through a series of in-depth interviews culled from many hours of research over a two-year period. The results touch on a variety of themes, including growing up gay, the coming-out process, and everyday gay life in Iceland. These straightforward oral histories reflect the thoughts of Icelandic gay men and women toward love and relationships, their views on the issues that affect their lives, and their outlook for the future.
Icelandic Lives: The Queer Experience counters the distinct lack of information available on queer life in Iceland with courageous and candid interviews that address the pressing issues facing gay men and lesbians everywhere. Interview subjects—men and women—range in age from late 50s to early 20s, providing a sense of the progress made by Icelandic society in accepting gay people. Those interviewed include: - Karl, male, late 50s: “AIDS took a great number of people I knew ten years ago. All of a sudden they were gone.”
- Hanna, female, early 40s: “I am still attracted to men but now I see I am also attracted to women. I am not sure what to think now.”
- Gudmundur, male, late 20s: “I saw nothing happening in the gay scene in Iceland. I became desperate and thought there were only two possibilities: be straight or move away.”
- Sunna, female, mid-30s: “At first, I thought maybe one or two people knew about me. I found out that a lot of people knew about me because people tended to do the job of sharing for me.”
- and much more!
Icelandic Lives: The Queer Experience is a unique resource that gives a real sense of everyday gay life in Iceland. The book's heartfelt narrative descriptions will benefit academics, researchers, and anyone interested in the queer experience.
Reader Reviews
Scandinavia is known internationally as a gay-friendly place. However, few commentators or academics have discussed gays in Iceland. This book tries to break that ice (pun intended). It consists of narratives of gay men and lesbians of various ages discussing coming out, finding love, and fighting homophobia. This book is incredibly simplistic. There is no analysis here whatsoever. This is very much meant for lay readers, rather than scholars. The chapters are quite short. What few photos there are are grainy and poorly produced. There are many photos of the contributors as children, yet this was not specifically a gay youth text. While there have been many books on gay Asia written by whites (Peter Jackson's "Dear Uncle Go", Bret Hirsch's "Passions of the Cut Sleeve", and Gary Leupp's "Male Colors" are examples), this is the first time I've seen an Asian person write on gay Europe. The book was narrated in English and linguistic errors were kept. They are cute and do add flavor. But when you read it, in your head, you'll think a gay Arnold Schwartzenegger was doing the narrating. This is a very slim, quickly consumible text. One reason for that is there is little about which to comment. Iceland has very gay-accepting laws. The editor mentions that gays can't adopt, but there are few children to adopt in Iceland anyway. This island with its small, homogenous population just has no reason to abuse its own, no matter what the sexual identity. This book ends with a photo of men carrying a bear flag. I think leather and bears are being conflated here, but it's nice seeing the movement be international.
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