a little bit dated but there's a lot of good information in there.

I have reviewed all 3 volumes individually! This is a phenomenal collection. I'd love to see more from Against Equality in the future. This has largely moved me to start writing again; I've had a writers block since forever.

I thought the arguments against hate crimes legislation were quite compelling, but I thought the arguments against marriage equality and military service were weak and put undue pressure on marginalized people to solve societal problems that already affect them disproportionately. Like, right now the US military is the largest employer of trans people in the US. To say that we shouldn't fight for their continued ability to serve because no one should participate in that violent imperialistic ins...

this book took me forever to read! it is very intense and i don't necessarily agree with everything they're saying. but i'm glad to have seen these people's viewpoints and having them in my brain makes me better.

This was a book club choice and I was really excited to hear what the authors had to say. Unfortunately, I was disappointed both by the quality of the essays and the unrelenting focus on the USA (with one exception for Canada). The former is a result of these essays being collected from various internet sources: a couple were very poorly written, one was so sarcastic and smug it was immediately alienating, and many did not address obvious counter-arguments, which made it hard for me to open my m...

This "book" works only as a doorstop, a conversation piece, or a joke book. It's full of half-baked ideas from seemingly half-educated minds, conspiracy theories, ranty Facebook posts (a great source for philosophy), and above all else holier-than-thou preaching. As in, a preacher in a dumpster telling you how to clean your house.Consider a group of activists living under Hitler rule who advocate against a measure to help Jewish women with dark hair because it doesn't help Jewish women with blon...

I wasn't a fan of how short the articles in this book were and how they lacked in-depth research and cultivated arguments, even though most of the content resonated with me. Some of the pieces were very repetitive, however, and extremely US-centric. All of that was whatever and all, until I looked up one of the authors (Bill Andriette) and it turns out he's a pro-pedophile "activist". What the actual fuck? He's literally the spokesperson of an organization (NAMBLA) that was a part of the Interna...

For G-d's sake. Let me have my Backwards Conservative Homonormative Lesbian Marriage in peace.

I have for a long time loved the work of 'Against Equality'. I believe they present a sound analysis of the LGBTIQ movement that needs to be discussed more. For this reason I was really excited to get my hands on this book. In large the book didn't disappoint and I powered through the readings. A collection of essays and articles, Against Equality critiques the mainstream LGBTIQ movement's focus on marriage, DADT and hate-crimes legislation in an effective and convincing manner. They bring toget...

his work posed many questions and thoughts that I'd never thought of before.  Certainly, I didn't think that the inclusion of the LGBT community in the military was necessarily a good thing--as though war and its crimes could ever be a good thing--but isn't same-sex marriage a step in the right direction?  And what about passing hate crime legislation?  Isn't that a good thing, too?  This book convinced me that perhaps it's not actually a good thing.  Perhaps it's actually a truly harmful thing....

(more like 2.5, but rounding up)This is a compilation of three smaller volumes which have a common theme : arguments against repealing the bans on same-sex marriage and on openly queer people serving in the military, and against enacting sexual orientation/gender identity related hate crime legislation. The short version : Some of the articles present valid criticisms for the first two topics (marriage, military) but the idea that discrimination should be left in place is unpersuasive. The point...

Creating a compilation of essays from various sources is no easy feat; this book goes to show how it could go terribly wrong. There are select few essays that have a cohesive, convincing argument, and even those carry little evidence to support their sometimes outlandish claims. It’s even harder to believe half the arguments, as the next essayist will contradict the previous one, thus weakening both arguments. What’s more, almost every piece carries a bitter, defensive and sarcastic tone, which

This one did not really do much for me. It's a collection of essays, and to be honest I really didn't read to the end. There are three standard goals of the mainstream queer rights movement critiqued: same-sex marriage, acceptance of gays in the military, and creation of hate crime legislation. Some of the critiques are alright, but it almost sounds like whining at times. I also see no contradiction between supporting progressive change within the system, with the long-term goal of completely ov...

-not gonna get married bc of this -america is evil-some of it's from like 2009 so idk how relevant it is on specifics but overall good concepts-sometimes i still think about "what about now" as in i want the overall capitalist system to collapse but also want pal's immediate survival needs met even if they are not done in a super radical way...like gotta balance the immediate needs and long term goalsonly took off a star bc it's repetitive, but thats ok bc it's an anthology so what can u expecta...

I usually don’t like anthologies but this one was really really good. I was never bored and it read really quick. learned a lot too :)

This book took me a while to finish because there was a lot to think about. It gave me a good introduction to leftist ideals while addressing to concepts of the prison system, equality in marriage, American healthcare system, policing, immigration laws, institutional racism, and the military complex, among others. While don’t necessarily agree with every single idea presented in this book, I do like how each there were various authors and various points of view that were at sometimes even contra...

I disagreed with most of this book, but that is fine, because I picked it up expecting to be challenged. The quality of some of the pieces is variable, but at its best it is a though provoking critique of the equality idea in LGBTQ thought. At its worst, it can be needlessly preachy and insensitive; such as one of the pieces in the first third, that seriously questions why gay men adopt whilst lesbians often give birth, and suggesting that the reason might have something to do with white claimin...

This was an extremely thought provoking book with a lot of important points to make in its critique of mainstream gay and lesbian politics, which the authors represented in this anthology see as increasingly conservative in nature. The authors are all radicals, anarchists (although I don't particularly like that word) and revolution seeking queers who are anti-marriage, anti-prison industrial complex, anti-military and anti-assimilation. But don't let that scare you away. The book can be extreme...

I dipped in and out of this book and therefore seemed to enjoy it more than people who read it cover to cover. A collection of essays many of them first written for the internet that were around at the time when LGBT communities in the US were campaigning for marriage equality. I found it interesting to read the arguments with hindsight and with the knowledge of how LGBT rights are being eroded by the current administration. The book also covered essays about the military and also the prison sys...

as i've said before in reviews, it's hard to rate anthologies b/c of their nature, but I still thought this was a pretty good one! definitely repetitive, but there are a lot of unique perspectives that I learned from. overall, i'd say this is pretty 101 when it comes to radical queer politics, but it's a great place to start for anyone with an open mind, and it'd absolutely be thought-provoking for more liberal/centrist gays. i do want to buy a copy of this at some point, it'd be a great referen...