Summary Of Refugees From Amerika A Gay Manifesto By Carl Wittman

In the 1970, gays from all over came to live in San Francisco which was thought of as a paradise. Carl Wittman shatters this perception in his first sentence from Refugees from Amerika: A Gay Manifesto, by saying that "San Francisco was a refugee camp for homosexuals", completely flipping previous perceptions. Wittman utilizes the TSIS strategy of "they say, I say" in his essay to illuminate his point that being gay in Amerika is not how it seems. Wittman, in the very first page of his article, states that he is educating the heterosexual population by redefining terms such as homosexuals, thus the heterosexual population as the "they say". Wittman enters the conversation or "puts in their oar" by stating that the whole conversation is not