Book Reviews
Hold the front page! This is what the papers say. If you’ve come across anything else, please let us know. Apologies for the lack of radio interview sound bytes – coming soon!
Gay Times
May 2005
By Joseph Galliano
“MEN Speak the Unspeakable”
by Michael Elias and Edward Seeker
In this unusual book, two men – one gay, one straight – interview various others* about the things that men aren’t meant to talk about… their feelings. It sells itself as a “ground-breaking raw male dialogue”. It’s a nice idea, but one that carries the taint of men’s encounter groups – for which the authors intend this to be source material**. While it’s refreshing to hear people talk candidly about their anxieties and places in the world – and in particularly their sexuality and the different roles that we assume or have foisted upon us – more often than not it descents into mere post-post-Feminist moaning, and I fear that it may be nowhere near as ground-breaking as the authors would have us believe.
*We didn’t interview anyone; we just talked.
**No we don’t!