Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual

Be a bad gay. Be a very bad gay! Read Inversion! This pugnacious book seeks to undermine the new identitarian hegemony of ‘queer,’ with its alphabet soup nomenclature. The essayists in Inversion survey a culture-war-torn, dystopian landscape wrecked by mindless identitarianism and conformity, rampant atomization, politically correct cancel culture gone mad, sexual puritanism (I never thought I’d see the day!), circular firing squads, victim Olympics, micro-aggression regression, anti-class-consciousness, and yes, even the (arguably) inherent misogyny of drag! (Somebody had to say it!). If you’re a faggot who is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, this is the book for you! Guaranteed to trigger, or your money back!
Bruce LaBruce, filmmaker, director of The Raspberry Reich

Love it or loathe it, Inversion‘s provocative, and at times offensive, heresies challenge LGBT+ orthodoxies. They make you think — and may also make you furious. But there are valid criticisms of aspects of queer identity, culture, and campaigns. Read and decide for yourself!
Peter Tatchell, LGBT+ rights campaigner

Inversion is an important, challenging collection of essays; an incredibly juicy read that sets you thinking again about your most basic assumptions. In an era of milksop platitudes disguised as transgressions, Inversion reopens debates on homosexual identity, rights, and culture, shining harsh light into dark corners and asking difficult — but fascinating — questions.
Gareth Roberts, author of Gay Shame

Should be required reading for faggots everywhere… poppers for the post-identity age… stop gooning and read this book already” 
Todd Verow, filmmaker, director of Frisk

If you feel suffocated by the boring pieties of queer academia, reading this exciting collection is like taking great gulps of fresh air; clever, intellectually curious, and full of provocative new ideas about what being a gay man means today.
Kathleen Stock, philosopher, author of Material Girls

Reading Inversion is like watching a great Fassbinder movie. Its bold theoretical reflections and artless assumptions of being gay, its diverse critical understandings of the new institution of the ‘queer,’ and the shedding of its accumulated baggage, make it urgent without anxiety, and a truly good read. 
Adrian Rifkin

How has the project of queer theory alienated so many gay men? The writers and theorists brought together here tackle this question from a perspective of generosity and love for gay men. After the critique of a consumerist gay identity, the discourse on queer has failed to provide a new space for a gay world-making. To reanimate this desire, the authors of Inversion re-center sex and language as indispensable forces for the creation of a present, for which we might not have the best name yet; not only ‘post-homosexual,’ and ‘post-gay,’ but also — or most of all — ’post-queer.’ Not shying away from polemics against queer theory’s canon and entering into conversations with almost-forgotten and problematic thinkers of the homosexual and gay past, Inversion challenges us to imagine transgression beyond an object of nostalgia.
Peter Rehberg, University of Cincinnati, author of Hipster Porn

Are you exhausted by the off-gassing of the manosphere, and totally over the aggrieved drama of wounded masculinity and its violent outbursts? Then read this book. Inverting the script by resuscitating the archaism of ‘inversion,’ this volume assembles bold and irreverent voices, each of whom critically assesses ‘the gay question’ for today. With renewed attention to the histories and unforeseen potentials of gay male sociality and sexuality — one of the longest-running social experiments in the reconfiguration of masculinity — the essays collected here couldn’t be more timely, invigorating, or necessary. 
John Paul Ricco, University of Toronto, author of Queer Finitude