Bashing Back: Wayne Besen on GLBT People, Politics, and Culture

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The Best of Besen! Bashing Back: Wayne Besen on GLBT People, Politics & Culture is a compilation of 72 columns from the outspoken GLBT activist and author of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth. Funny, provocative, and informative, this unique book puts a progressive spin on hot-button topics in the political, cultural, and social arenas, covering... Read more

The Best of Besen!

Bashing Back: Wayne Besen on GLBT People, Politics & Culture is a compilation of 72 columns from the outspoken GLBT activist and author of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth. Funny, provocative, and informative, this unique book puts a progressive spin on hot-button topics in the political, cultural, and social arenas, covering everything from AIDS and African-Americans to Zach Stark.

Bashing Back presents an A-to-Z look at Besen's worldview on a wide range of topics, including Bill O'Reilly, Brokeback Mountain, Ellen DeGeneres, gay pride parades, marriage rights, Mary Cheney, overhauling the gay movement, religion and politics, sports and homophobia, The Passion of the Christ, the pitiful state of TV news, the Vatican's war on gays, the World Trade Center, and New Orleans. Smart and funny, Besen delivers a knockout punch to the notion that liberalism stands for nothing and progressive means passive.

From the author:
“The columns I have chosen for this book touch on politics and people, comedy and culture. But most of all, they are a strong defense of the liberal values that have made this nation strong. It is time we proudly stand up for what we believe in. If we don't defend our values, our opponents will define them. . . . Bashing Back is the first punch in a fight to take back our culture and restore progressive values for the good of the nation.”

An excerpt from “Bill O'Reilly:”
Once upon a time I actually enjoyed The O'Reilly Factor. While I almost always disagreed with him, he was at least entertaining. Lately, however, he has morphed into just another Bush mouthpiece. The master of the “No Spin Zone” is suddenly spinning so hard he is in the Twilight Zone, dizzy in his own deception. He even had the audacity on CNBC to suggest that Fox isn't a conservative news outlet. That's beyond spin. If it were closer to Hanukah I'd think O'Reilly was a dreidel.

My other problem with his show is that it's unnaturally obsessed with gay issues. More gay people appear on The O'Reilly Factor than on Showtime's Queer as Folk. I know that sounds strange coming from a gay columnist who has twice appeared on his show. But it seems like he's had on every gay person in America to use as his personal political piñata. When even gay activists are tired of watching gay segments, it's time to find a new culture war issue.

Bashing Back is an invaluable compilation of Besen's best columns from Planet Out, Gay.com, and the Washington Blade. It's an essential resource for longtime Besen readers and an entertaining introduction for newcomers.
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Preface
A
AIDS and African Americans
Andrew Sullivan’s Reckless Rhetoric
Armstrong Williams
B
Bill O’Reilly
Biology of the Gay Brain
Brokeback Mountain
C
Civil Unions versus Marriage
Condom Fatigue
Constitutional Marriage Amendments
Coretta Scott King
D
Defending Bathhouses
Discrimination in Maine
E
Ellen DeGeneres
F
Fire and Brimstone Smokescreen
Fruit Fly Study
G
Gay Pride Parades
Gayborhoods
GOP Convention
H
Harriet Miers
Holding Hands in Public
Howard Dean
Howard Dean and the DNC
I
Islam and Cartoons
Israel for Gays?
J
James McGreevey
Jeff Gannon
John Kerry
John Roberts Nomination
K
Kerry versus Bush
L
Logo Television
Losing the Battle
M
Marriage
Mary Cheney
Mary Cheney Celebrates Father’s Day
Metrosexuals
Miracles over Math
Modern Conservatism
N
New Kinsey Scale
Newt Gingrich
O
Online Lying
Out In Park Slope
Overhauling the Gay Movement
P
The Passion of the Christ
The Pitiful State of Television News
Presidential Election 2004
The Priest Made Me Gay?
Programmed to be Shallow?
Q
Queer New York
R
Reggie White
Religion and Activism
Religion and Politics
Republican Bullying
Rick Warren (Purpose Driven Lies)
Ronald Reagan
S
Soul Market
South Carolina Pride Speech
SpongeBob
Sports and Homophobia
T
Taxes and Bush
Terri Schiavo
U
Undermining National Security
Utah and Brokeback Mountain
V
Values School
Vatican’s War on Gays
Virginia on the Move
The Virginian-Puppet?
W
Whining on the Right
Who Will Define Jesus?
Will & {Dis}Grace?
World Trade Center and New Orleans
X
X-Gays
Y
Yahoo Think Tanks
Z
Zach Stark

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