Qtopia

A Memoir of Love, Land, and Liberation

Juda Bennett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2026
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-35704-7 (ISBN)

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In the 1970s, while communes bloomed like wildflowers across the land, most had no room for queer members. The so-called counterculture still clung to heterosexual norms, even as it preached freedom from traditional gender roles and the nuclear family. Juda Bennett’s engrossing memoir follows his escape from suburbia into the back-to-the-land movement—and chronicles the efforts it took for him to “drop back in” to mainstream society and the ways in which he and his compatriots continued to honor their communal vision.

After enduring the hollow promises of “progressive” communes, Bennett finally found what he didn’t know he was looking for at Lavender Hill, a rural queer commune of visionaries carving out a life beyond heteronormativity, beyond capitalism, beyond shame. They didn’t just survive; they built something messy, luminous, and defiantly alive. And when the commune began to unravel, they didn’t vanish. They evolved. Qtopia is a story of chosen family and radical transformation. It is a reminder that queer utopia isn’t behind us—it’s still out there on the horizon, singing its song of joy, defiance, and fabulousness.

Juda Bennett, a professor emeritus of English at the College of New Jersey, is the author of four academic books and numerous essays, short stories, and poems. He is a co-author of the group memoir The Toni Morrison Book Club.

Preface
Part One: Before I Could Dream of Lavender Hill On Hippies and Boot Camp In Walks the Mummy Leaving Home Walking to the Mountain Too Much Flesh in the Afternoon Sun Culture Shock Back in the Diamond State One Thousand Communes Living in a Coal Bin Everything Was an Experiment, Even Sexuality Before Leaving, the Rats Came What It’s Like to Die RFD, or How a Magazine Can Save Your Life How Freaky Can You Get? Part Two: Lavender Hill The Road to Utopia I Need to Believe in This Place A House Out of a Fairy Tale First Love In Search of Michael Too Much Love What Is Home to Queer People? Pilgrimage to San Francisco How I Got My Hippie Name Locating Utopia on a Map Jerry Becomes Ruby, and Ruby Becomes Green Man House on Wheels Too Poor Not to Be Educated Fires Everywhere How Many People Make a Commune In Walks Allen Ginsberg Insert Myth Here How to Build Family with Only Two People Empty and Naked Interlude of the House That Was Not a House Part Three: Where Are They Now? Talking to Ghosts A Virtual Gathering Jeff, the Preservationist

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.5.2026
Reihe/Serie	Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-299-35704-X / 029935704X
ISBN-13	978-0-299-35704-7 / 9780299357047
Zustand	Neuware