CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
BEYOND MASCULINITY:
Essays by Queer Men on Gender and Politics
www.beyondmasculinity.com

Gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer men's gender identities often
exist somewhere outside the traditional categories of "masculine" and
"feminine." Sissies, drag queens, and leather daddies alike play with
gender in a way that cannot be accounted for in traditional
understandings of maleness. This collection -- part blog, part
anthology, part audiobook -- aims to shatter traditional
understandings of maleness and point towards a new understanding of
how queerness and gender intersect.

***DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MARCH 31, 2007***

BEYOND MASCULINITY is looking for contributions in four areas.
Contributors should not feel bound by these categories - they should
rather be seen as potential prompts:

I. Intersections of Identity: How do race, ability, class, and other
kinds of identities and experiences intersect with gender and
queerness -- and how do these intersections complicate our
relationship to traditional understandings of "maleness?"

II. Feminism / Gender / Politics: How can feminism inform our
understanding of queer male gender? Can queer men be feminists? How
can we use our queerness as a political tool? What does male privilege
look like for queer men?

III. Bodies, Desire, and Pleasure: What kinds of male bodies are
desired? Fetishized? Where does sexual desire intersect with queer
gender and how are these politics mapped out on our bodies?

IV. Queer Male Communities: How are our identities produced through
our communities? How do the gender norms and politics of
gay/bi/trans/ queer male communities both liberate and constrain us?

We're looking for queer male writers to step up and contribute their
thoughts to this online project. We're looking for personal /
political essays. No academic papers, fiction, or poetry will be
accepted. ***This is not your typical bookstore anthology.** * It will
be only available online - and it will be completely free of charge to
the public. With its unique implementation of media, this anthology
aims to change the way queer non-fiction is done.

About the Editor: Trevor Hoppe is a Masters of Arts Student in Human
Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. He has a long
history of LGBTQ campus organizing as an undergraduate student at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he helped found the
GLBT-Straight Alliance. While at UNC, he also helped found the
Southeastern Unity Conference, which was focused on investigating the
intersections of queerness with other kinds of identities. His essays
and editorials have been published in several publications, including
The Advocate, Boston's Bay Windows, San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter,
The East Bay Alternative, and American Sexuality Magazine.

For more information on the project or to submit your work, please see
our website: www.beyondmasculinity. com. Questions? Contact
Editor Trevor Hoppe at editor@beyondmascul inity.com.