Discover cutting-edge insights from the generation of young queers - Generation Q. Born between the late 1960s and early 1980s, these gay and lesbian Generation X-ers have inherited a visible, diverse culture and previously unimaginable freedoms as well as hardships - all of which this book documents. At terms acerbic, sometimes hilarious, always unflinchingly real, the contributors tackle such classic struggles as coming out, labels, AIDS, and lesbian chic.