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A review by sinceremercy
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
4.0
I'm not sure how else to describe this book except that I think it's really special. Though it's framed as a fable, the philosophy behind it is extremely earnest. It plays with gender and identity in a way that I really enjoy; identity is fluid and frequently changing, sometimes (as the book describes) deliberately to confuse the "men". Reading the book as an experience felt like immersing myself in a sense of community and solidarity. Overall, really enjoyable.
"The faggots once called themselves the men who love men. But they discovered that they did not love men, they loved only other men who loved men which was not that many of the men. [...] The men who hate others hate the men who love men. And this hatred is so strong that it turns the men who love men into the faggots."
"The faggots once called themselves the men who love men. But they discovered that they did not love men, they loved only other men who loved men which was not that many of the men. [...] The men who hate others hate the men who love men. And this hatred is so strong that it turns the men who love men into the faggots."