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Book Review: Peter Beilharz, Thinking the Antipodes: Australian Essays

Robinson’s attention to the experiences of gay men across the life course, and his theorisation of that experience, makes a valuable methodological contribution to qualitative life-story narrative research. While Robinson provides compelling analyses of his data, I am uneasy with what I read as a possibly universalist account of gay life that elides differences of class, education, race, ethnicity, religion, faith and contemporary expressions of sex, gender and sexuality diversity. This is especially important in the context of those theorisations of homonormativity that analyse and critique the extent to which neoliberal politics and practices align gay/queer life with capitalist, heteronormative economies of desire and consumption; economies that simultaneously export/import white, western, middle-class, heterosexual norms, and privilege social practices that erode the possibilities for liberatory, transgressive modes of being or becoming queer.