The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories
The Kinda Fella I Am continues Raymond Luczak's extraordinary string of outstanding books. Delving into our deep needs for human connection, Luczak imagines the world as seen by queer disabled men.
The breadth of Raymond Luczak's writing leaves us dazzled. -- Michael Thomas Ford, author of Lily
The Kinda Fella I Am takes us on a captivating dive into the lives of these disabled queers. We follow them from kitchen to bedoom, from coffee shops to sex clubs.
Fighting the flattened stereotypes of gay men in literature, Luczak offers us an audacious array of people and situations. From delight to depression, his characters leap off the page in bold and honest representations.
These short stories are 'performance-art arias' of desire, anxiety, and hope" Jack Fritscher, PhD, author, Mapplethorpe: Assault and Gay San Francisco
Throughout the book, characters come alive sharing their intriguing lives with us.
I used to be the kinda fella who was expected to sit quietly in his wheelchair by the sidelines ...
So begins Raymond Luczak's title piece. We follow his characters as they reawaken their sexual desires after injuries. Initially rejected by gay communities, they create their own sex play rooms until they build the confidence and skills to re-enter gay communities with self-assured sexuality.
tender, queer, innovative -- Jillian Weise, author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex
Through a variety of characters with disabilities, The Kinda Fella I Am explores the disabled queer male experience. Raymond Luczak, author of the award-winning novel Men with Their Hands, goes boldly into bedrooms and other places where most able-bodied men fear to tread.
a rare glimpse behind the curtains of queer disabled men - Robert McRuer, Ph.D., author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and co-editor of Sex and Disability
Raymond Luczak is a multitalented writer, artist and publisher. The Kinda Fella I Am adds to his already impressive stable of 19 books and plays which have received awards from the Lambda Literary Awards and the Samuel Edwards Deaf Playwrights Competition.
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"Raymond Luczak's The Kinda Fella I Am presents readers with the most diverse tapestry of characters in contemporary queer literature. From the gay wheelchair user reflecting back on his life as he cruises men at a leather bar to the self-described confirmed masturbator critiquing the ableism of the radical faeries, the amazing array of 'fellas' in Luczak's stories are fierce, fabulous, and filled with desire. No other collection of stories maps the rich intersections of queer, Deaf, and disabled cultures like The Kinda Fella I Am." --Robert McRuer, author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and co-editor of Sex and Disability
"Raymond Luczak's narrators tell their stories with voices brimming with pride, rage, and hope. Their experiences rise from the page like wildfire, ferocious and breathtaking, burning away our preconceptions of disability and leaving us dazzled." --Michael Thomas Ford, author of Lily
"This book is obscene, tender, queer, innovative, and very disabled. This book will turn you on." --Jillian Weise, author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex
"These fifteen accessible, and entertaining, eyewitness stories of physical identity and existential inequities are 'performance-art arias' of desire, anxiety, and hope capable of rocking the consciousness of even the most sympathetic readers curious about the hazards to all that are inherent in gay society's quarantine of people labeled disabled." --Jack Fritscher, PhD, author of Mapplethorpe: Assault and Gay San Francisco
