A01=Kay Gabriel
Author_Kay Gabriel
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fascism
hedonism
Larry Kramer
LGBTQ
moral panic
movies
organizing strategy
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race and racialization
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trans identity
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Product details
- ISBN 9781643622941
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 13 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Perverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life.
Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organizer’s question—how do we turn what we have into what we need to get what we want? Synthesizing her own dreams with those of her friends, Kay Gabriel’s Perverts is an exercise in turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause..
Kay Gabriel is a writer and organizer. She’s the author of Perverts (2025), Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (2023), and A Queen in Bucks County (2022), all from Nightboat. She’s the Editorial Director at the Poetry Project and lives in New York City.
