States of Desire: Travels in Gay AmericaThis volume gives a city by city description of the way homosexual men lived in the late 1970s. The author weaves a vivid tapestry of people and places as he presents the pros and cons of such issues as gay radicalism, the "urban gay renaissance" and the much discussed gay penchant for hedonism and sexual extremism. Above all, he shows the remarkable possibilities for the gay lifestyle. The author tells what goes on behind the glittering surface of fashionable nightspots and glamorous resorts. But he also shows us gay engineers, gay computer experts, and gay cowboys; this is a look at a vast world never before documented. By introducing the reader to a wide variety of gay people, this book provides new insights into what it means to be gay in America. |
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Page 189
... social workers answer the suicide hotline . I talk to straight teachers and social workers from all over the state . Many of them are sophisticated , but many are quite ill - informed and ask me things like : If you could be straight ...
... social workers answer the suicide hotline . I talk to straight teachers and social workers from all over the state . Many of them are sophisticated , but many are quite ill - informed and ask me things like : If you could be straight ...
Page 259
... social terrain ; people interested in the mores of hustlers and transves- tites might imagine that by reading Our Lady of the Flowers they would learn something of actual life - an injustice to the book and a hilariously warped version ...
... social terrain ; people interested in the mores of hustlers and transves- tites might imagine that by reading Our Lady of the Flowers they would learn something of actual life - an injustice to the book and a hilariously warped version ...
Page 262
... social ” eve- ning . He shares a summer house in East Hampton , and in conversation he says , " I haven't yet opened the house in the Hamptons for the season " to make the following false implica- tions : I own the house ; I live in it ...
... social ” eve- ning . He shares a summer house in East Hampton , and in conversation he says , " I haven't yet opened the house in the Hamptons for the season " to make the following false implica- tions : I own the house ; I live in it ...
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San Francisco | 30 |
Portland and Seattle | 70 |
Santa Fe Salt Lake City and Denver | 93 |
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