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Description:The stories are told through a variety of literary genres, including poetry, prose, and interviews. In "Walking," the author faces a medical panel where he is to be examined, but finds himself, much to his chagrin, with an impetuous and obtrusive erection. Perhaps it is only a matter of taste, but some of the poetry is of the cathartic type without the "craft" elements of formal published poetry or the spectacle of a performance piece. Queer Crips offers the promise of new, thoughtful discussions that involve how "crip" gay men mediate their desires for love, success and fulfillment in the "gay," "straight," "non-disabled," and "disabled" worlds, while not forgetting their personal histories. Queer Crips works to explode the assumed asexual character of disabled men through pervasively highlighting a wide depiction of desires both satisfied and those left unsatisfied. It serves as a domain for "crip" gay men to brilliantly articulate their place in the great mosaic that is gay history and life. Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, Robert McRuer notes that the stories in Queer Crips are "nonheteronormative in their broadest sense" and that it is "striking how much the convergence of disability and homosexuality in "Queer Crips" appears to authorize erotic inventiveness and play".

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