Love Uncontestable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival.(Review)

Journal of Men's Studies, The, March, 1999 by BUTTERS, GERALD, R., JR.

Love Uncontestable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival by Andrew Sullivan, New York: Knopf, 1998, 256 pp.

The divide between the homosexual and the heterosexual is as narrow as it is wide. In Love Uncontestable, former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan considers "friendship, sex, and survival" among gay men in the late nineties. But this volume, which will be read predominantly by a gay population, is significant for any individual currently working in men's studies. Sullivan's reflections on normality, friendship, love, and religious faith are as applicable to heterosexual men and women as they are to homosexual men. The moral and ethical issues he considers narrow the supposed extensive divide between gay and straight, reflecting the universal...

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