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portada Qtopia. A Memoir of Love, Land, and Liberation
Type
Physical Book
Collection
Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.00 cm
ISBN13
9780299357047

Qtopia. A Memoir of Love, Land, and Liberation

Juda Bennett (Author) · University of Wisconsin Press · Paperback

Qtopia. A Memoir of Love, Land, and Liberation - Juda Bennett

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Synopsis "Qtopia. A Memoir of Love, Land, and Liberation"

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.

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