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Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer: 20 Years Later
Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer: 20 Years Later
Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer: 20 Years Later
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Raymond Luczak revisits the essay that brought him national attention for the first time. Originally published as a cover story in CHRISTOPHER STREET magazine in December 1990, rereading the essay prompted him to compare his feelings against what he'd felt back then. His reactions may surprise you.

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Release dateNov 8, 2010
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Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer: 20 Years Later
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Raymond Luczak

Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of twenty books. Titles include The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories and QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology. His Deaf gay novel Men with Their Hands won first place in the Project: QueerLit Contest 2006. His work has been nominated nine times for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He can be found online at raymondluczak.com.

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    Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer - Raymond Luczak

    NOTES OF A DEAF GAY WRITER

    20 YEARS LATER

    by

    RAYMOND LUCZAK

    Handtype Press

    Minneapolis, Minnesota

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    Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer: 20 Years Later

    Copyright 2010 by Raymond Luczak

    Published by Handtype Press via Smashwords

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    ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

    How to Kill Poetry

    Road Work Ahead: Poems

    Mute: Poems

    Men with Their Hands: A Novel

    Whispers of a Savage Sort and Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience

    Assembly Required: Notes from a Deaf Gay Life

    Snooty: A Comedy

    Silence Is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness

    This Way to the Acorns: Poems

    St. Michael’s Fall: Poems

    AS EDITOR

    Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience

    Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader

    When I Am Dead: The Writings of George M. Teegarden

    Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader

    http://www.raymondluczak.com

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    for Tom Steele

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    The original essay was published in Christopher Street (Issue 152) in December 1990. This chapbook with the 2010 commentary appeared in a limited edition of ten copies by Hot Off The (http://www.hotoffthe.net). Special thanks go to Ariel and Tiffany.

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    NOTES OF A DEAF GAY WRITER:

    20 YEARS LATER

    Old writings that never see the print of day have a peculiar future ahead of them: they are just plain bad, or possibly interesting forecasts of the writer yet to mature, or truly great stuff that the writer didn’t think was good enough for publication. We writers know how it is--we often write more than we should, and we often find it even more difficult to get anything published.

    What, then, should a writer make of an old piece that had, in hindsight, introduced him into the larger national discussion of what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)? The essay in question is my 1990 piece Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer, which appeared as the cover story of Christopher Street (Issue 152), widely considered the gay New Yorker of its day. I’d just turned 25.

    Twenty years ago, when that was published, I was just another writer wanna-be in New York City. Even though I’d graduated from college two years prior, I had been writing, though very rarely for publication, for more than a decade. I realize now that a part of me had long felt that as much as I had wanted to get published, I didn’t feel truly worthy. It was quite a surprise when the editor of Christopher Street called to say that he wanted it.

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