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for AmCon. Really like the point about my book being specifically lesbian<\/em> rather than gay\u2013and it should\u2019ve been much more lesbian! If I had it to do over I\u2019d do a LOT more research into the history of love between women, e.g. Boston marriages, \u201cromantic friendship.\u201d This piece focuses more heavily than the book does on the specific, perhaps outre case of vowed friendships, which I\u2019m presenting as a beautiful possibility grounded in tradition and not some kind of universal Solution to the Problem of Gay People<\/a>. (See also me on \u201cIs celibacy the new ex-gay?\u201d<\/a>) But Bruenig\u2019s points are well-taken & she\u2019s clearly engaging with what I\u2019m up to. She touches on various possible problems with the vowed-friendship model but notes that these problems are alternatives to our current problems of gay isolation and despair.<\/p>\n

Tushnet sets out to \u201coffer ways to create a celibate queer life that is better than the one I used to have,\u201d which alerts readers at the outset that the book is something of a journey. But Tushnet\u2019s autobiography takes up only the first few chapters and is revisited in asides from there on out; the journey, then, is more of an \u201cadventure\u201d in theologian Stanley Hauerwas\u2019s sense\u2014concerned with the daily heroism of Christian life\u2014than a straightforward tale of personal triumph over adversity. As an interlocutor, Tushnet is entertaining and lucid, confident but comfortably self-effacing, with a fondness for her former self in all her awkward adolescent stages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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for AmCon. Really like the point about my book being specifically lesbian rather than gay\u2013and it should\u2019ve been much more lesbian! If I had it to do over I\u2019d do a LOT more research into the history of love between women, e.g. Boston marriages, \u201cromantic friendship.\u201d This piece focuses more heavily than the book does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,10],"tags":[56,1264,30,113],"class_list":["post-9447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-catholic-whatnot","category-mackerel-snapping","category-self-obsessed","tag-friendship","tag-gay-catholic-whatnot","tag-mackerel-snapping-2","tag-woman-is-the-irony-of-the-community"],"yoast_head":"\nElizabeth Stoker Bruenig Reviews "Gay and Catholic"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"for AmCon. 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