God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence (Sexual by Michael Cobb
By Michael Cobb
2007 selection notable educational Title
At the funeral of Matthew Shepard—the younger Wyoming guy brutally murdered for being gay—the Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, exhibiting indicators with slogans like “Matt Shepard rots in Hell,” “Fags Die God Laughs,” and “God Hates Fags.” In counter-protest, activists introduced an “angel action,” dressing in angel costumes, with seven-foot excessive wings, and making a obvious barrier so one shouldn't have to determine the hateful signs.
Though lengthy considered essentially the most virulently anti-gay genres of latest American politics and tradition, in God Hates Fags, Michael Cobb continues that spiritual discourses have apparently figured because the so much effective and pervasive kinds of queer expression and activism during the 20th century. Cobb makes a speciality of how queers have assumed non secular rhetoric strategically to answer the violence performed opposed to them, alternating shut readings of writings through James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Jean Toomer, Dorothy Allison, and Stephen Crane with serious criminal and political analyses of excellent complaints and anti-gay laws. He additionally can pay deep cognizance to the political concepts, public declarations, web content, interviews, and different media made via key spiritual correct corporations that experience fixed the main profitable laws and condemnations of homosexuality.
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