| Description |
xviii, 317 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-279). |
| Contents |
American dreams / Kevin Jennings -- It happened on Main Street / Linda Heal-- My image of myself / Dennis -- from Johnnieruth / Becky Birtha -- from Martina / Martina Navratilova -- from The David Kopay story / David Kopay , Perry Deane Young -- The answers I needed / Billie Tallmij -- from The well of loneliness / Radclyffe Hall / from The naked civil servant / Quentin Crisp -- from Zami / Audre Lorde -- A diet of green salads / Whitey -- Blueberry man / David Bergman -- A world of possibilities / Steven Saylor -- The world outside / Julia Sullivan -- Different is not bad / Michael -- from Annie on my mind / Nancy Garden -- We two boys together clinging / Walt Whitman -- My archenemy / Jill Frushtick -- from The best little boy in the world / John Reid -- My best friend is gay?! / Shawn -- It's too hot / David J. Deschamps -- from Giovanni's room / James Baldwin -- Life line / Gloria E. Anzaldua -- from Take off the masks / Malcolm Boyd -- My story / Dennis Cooper -- from Raven's Road / Paula Gunn Allen -- from The lost language of cranes / David Leavitt -- Coming out to my mom / Travis Wise -- My mother's worst fears / Nancy D. Kates. |
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Black, queer, and out / Karl Bruce Knapper -- Cat / Julie Carter -- from Becoming a man / Paul Monette -- What my father told me / Paul Phillips -- from My brother on the shoulder of the road / Clifford Chase -- My brother / Pat Parker -- Growing up gay in Little Havana / Jesse G. Monteagudo -- from Oranges are not the only fruit / Jeanette Winterson -- Dawn / James Purdy -- A Chinese banquet / Kitty Tsui -- Commitments / Essex Hemphill -- from Gun-shy / Sean Mills -- from Night kites / M.E. Kerr -- A whisper in the veins / Terry Wolverton -- Mother and child / Jeanne Manford, Morty Manford -- A lesbian in class! / Beth Harrison -- A letter to Aunt Shelley and Uncle Don / Tom Shepard -- from We all nourish truth with our tongues / Dorothy Allison -- from Honor bound / Joseph Steffan -- Speaking up / Erna Pahe -- In my own space / Calvin Glenn -- from Teamwork / Lucy Jane Bledsoe -- Language of violence / The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy -- from Abominations / Lev Raphael -- from Rubyfruit jungle / Rita Mae Brown / from Reflections of a rock lobster / Aaron Fricke -- Does it matter? / Anonymous. |
| Subject |
Gay people's writings.
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Gay people in literature.
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| Added Author |
Singer, Bennett L.
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| ISBN |
1565841026 |
| OCLC # |
29457542 |
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