Rhetorical secrets : mapping gay identity and queer resistance in contemporary America / Davin Allen Grindstaff ; cover photographs by Jeffrey Baker.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.

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Davin Allen Grindstaff, through a series of close textual analyses examining public discourse, uncovers the rhetorical modes of persuasion surrounding the construction of gay male sexual identity. In Part One, Grindstaff establishes his notion of the ""rhetorical secret"" central to constructions of gay male identity: the practice of sexual identity as a secret, its promise of a coherent sexual self, and the perpetuation of secrecy as a product and strategy of heteronormative discourse. Grindstaff continues in Part Two to examine major issues related to contemporary.

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September 05, 2024

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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Rhetorical Secret; 2. The Essential and the Ethnic; 3. Semen and Subjectivity; 4. Experiencing the Erotic; 5. Coming Out as Contagious Discourse; Conclusion: The Conditions of Speaking about Homosexuality; Notes; References; Index.