02034cam a2200265Mi 4500 on1200032270 OCoLC ta 210125r20202019enk 000 0deng d 9781509866175 (paperback) 1509866175 (paperback) (OCoLC)1200032270 HQ73 .A27 2020 Abraham, Amelia, 1991- Queer intentions : a (personal) journey through LGBTQ+ culture / Amelia Abraham. London : Picador, 2020. 326 p. Reprint. Originally published 2019. Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all it's cracked up to be? At what cost does this acceptance come? And who is getting left behind, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ rights aren't so advanced? Combining intrepid journalism with her own personal experience, Amelia Abraham searches for the answers to these urgent challenges, as well as the broader question of what it means to be queer in 2019. With curiosity, good humour and disarming openness, Amelia takes the reader on a thought-provoking and entertaining journey. Join her as she cries at the first same-sex marriage in Britain, loses herself in the world's biggest drag convention in L.A., marches at Pride parades across Europe, visits both a transgender model agency and the Anti-Violence Project in New York to understand the extremes of trans life today, parties in the clubs of Turkey's underground LGBTQ+ scene, and meets a genderless family in progressive Stockholm. Queer intentions provides the ultimate exploration of the joys and pains of being LGBTQ+ in the West at a time when queer culture has never been so mainstream. Sexual minorities Identity. Sexual minorities Social conditions. Gay and lesbian studies. Queer theory. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 HQ73 .A27 2020 PNLIB21060121 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 307 307