Can I read Your First Audience Is Your People on EtoBox?

Your First Audience Is Your People by Judy Grahn is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Your First Audience Is Your People about?

We did it! The lesbian and gay movements have created overtly lesbian and gay writing (for the most part), and this writing, in turn, has created and sustained and furthered the movementsthey are phases of the same moon.If there is a gay or lesbian writer who has never done any organizing, that person is taking a free ride. The rest of us have had to devote some amount of time, some of us many years of our lives, to developing an audience. Meaning: to give our people something tangible to hope for, to help them identify as gay enough to want to read about themselves. Hope is what entices people to read, to see themselves reflected accurately and respectfully, to imagine participating in the world of culture and activity that reflects them as they actually are-that tells their story in the stream of all story.By "develop an audience," I mean develop some aspects of the political and cultural movements as physical entities and events. Sometimes that means going into the streets and public halls in action, shouting, risk-taking, demonstrating at top volume. Sometimes it means staying in airless rooms for hours and hours every day and every week and every month holding and attending en

Author

Judy Grahn

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN