Book Description

Blue, Too contains writing by twenty writers who speak meaningfully about queers in and from the working class and provide a touchstone for working-class LGBTQ writers eager to know more about their traditions and their history. Blue, Too is meant to entertain and challenge, but most of all it is meant to illuminate our realities, our struggles, and our resistance to assimilation and mental gentrification. As a sourcebook for working-class studies and queer studies, Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers includes two special features: "A Blue Study: The Reader's, Writer's, and Scholar's Guide" to using Blue, Too to examine the interlocking issues of queerness and social class, including discussion questions and prompts for writing and mini-research projects that connect the reader with working-class and LBGT scholarship; and "Reading Blue," an extensive annotated bibliography that represents the first-ever attempt to create an exhaustive listing of materials related to queers and class.