HOW TO LIVE AMONG STRAIGHTS: Without Losing Your Mind
How to Live Among Straights is biting, sorrowful, and unrelentingly bold. It isn't a request for tolerance—it's a declaration of exhaustion, wit, and hard-earned defiance. As cultural critique, it is scalpel-sharp. As literature, it pulses with rhythm and clarity. This book doesn't pander, doesn't soften, and doesn't try to make itself palatable for mainstream approval.

It challenges not only straight culture but also those within the gay and lesbian community who have traded survival for silence, or liberation for lifestyle.
Recommended for:
• Homosexual readers who are tired of being "tolerated"
• Readers interested in power, performance, and cultural critique
• Anyone prepared to laugh, wince, and maybe rethink their lawn sign
Not recommended for:
• Readers seeking a polite roadmap to allyship
• Those easily offended by satire aimed at systems, not individuals
• Anyone who believes "equality" was the final chapter

This is not a bridge. It's a mirror. And it's not asking for applause. It's asking: What did we give up just to be allowed to stay?
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HOW TO LIVE AMONG STRAIGHTS: Without Losing Your Mind
How to Live Among Straights is biting, sorrowful, and unrelentingly bold. It isn't a request for tolerance—it's a declaration of exhaustion, wit, and hard-earned defiance. As cultural critique, it is scalpel-sharp. As literature, it pulses with rhythm and clarity. This book doesn't pander, doesn't soften, and doesn't try to make itself palatable for mainstream approval.

It challenges not only straight culture but also those within the gay and lesbian community who have traded survival for silence, or liberation for lifestyle.
Recommended for:
• Homosexual readers who are tired of being "tolerated"
• Readers interested in power, performance, and cultural critique
• Anyone prepared to laugh, wince, and maybe rethink their lawn sign
Not recommended for:
• Readers seeking a polite roadmap to allyship
• Those easily offended by satire aimed at systems, not individuals
• Anyone who believes "equality" was the final chapter

This is not a bridge. It's a mirror. And it's not asking for applause. It's asking: What did we give up just to be allowed to stay?
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HOW TO LIVE AMONG STRAIGHTS: Without Losing Your Mind

HOW TO LIVE AMONG STRAIGHTS: Without Losing Your Mind

by Christopher Tolerant
HOW TO LIVE AMONG STRAIGHTS: Without Losing Your Mind

HOW TO LIVE AMONG STRAIGHTS: Without Losing Your Mind

by Christopher Tolerant

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How to Live Among Straights is biting, sorrowful, and unrelentingly bold. It isn't a request for tolerance—it's a declaration of exhaustion, wit, and hard-earned defiance. As cultural critique, it is scalpel-sharp. As literature, it pulses with rhythm and clarity. This book doesn't pander, doesn't soften, and doesn't try to make itself palatable for mainstream approval.

It challenges not only straight culture but also those within the gay and lesbian community who have traded survival for silence, or liberation for lifestyle.
Recommended for:
• Homosexual readers who are tired of being "tolerated"
• Readers interested in power, performance, and cultural critique
• Anyone prepared to laugh, wince, and maybe rethink their lawn sign
Not recommended for:
• Readers seeking a polite roadmap to allyship
• Those easily offended by satire aimed at systems, not individuals
• Anyone who believes "equality" was the final chapter

This is not a bridge. It's a mirror. And it's not asking for applause. It's asking: What did we give up just to be allowed to stay?

Product Details

BN ID: 2940184422466
Publisher: OWHMS PUBLISING
Publication date: 08/09/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 575 KB

About the Author

Christopher Tolerant is a cultural critic, wine enthusiast, and long-time survivor of heterosexual spaces. He holds no official degrees but speaks with the confidence of someone who’s sat through thousands of straight weddings and lived to annotate them.

His work blends satire, sociology, and subtle vengeance. How to Live Among Straights Without Losing Your Mind is his first and final word on the matter—unless provoked. He currently lives somewhere between exhaustion and elegance.
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