You Can Run: Gay, Glam, and Gritty Travels in South America

by Luongo; Michael

• ISBN13: 9781560236542
• ISBN10: 156023654X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-04-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From Machu Picchu to a cocaine purchase in a Bolivian jail, You Can Run: Gay, Glam, and Gritty Travels in South America follows the intrepid, fantastic, and totally true adventures of flamboyant gay men through the gritty rough and tough of the real South America. Author Jesse Archer and his American boyfriend Zane spent nearly two years traveling the continent in search of adventure. And find it they did. Discover incredible individuals like Patricia the pink lady, the Wolfman of Borneo, and Santusa the fanged Chola of a different color. Thrill to the astounding experiences of dodging crocodiles, doing a striptease for a Colombian bathroom bitch, admiring exultant transsexuals caught in a rainstorm, and navigating the most dangerous road in the world. Visit the author at www.jesseonthebrink.com. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Summer 1999	p. 1
Dippy and Pansy Go Trekking	p. 5
The Pink Lady	p. 11
Off Duty	p. 15
Freaks Like Us	p. 21
Tango Carnival	p. 25
An Argentine Never Forgets	p. 33
Where I Am	p. 41
Once Upon a Time in Rio	p. 49
Accepting Never-Never Land	p. 59
Mr. Popular	p. 65
Greek to Me	p. 71
You Must Be This High to Ride This Ride	p. 77
The Long Good-Bye	p. 81
Vigilance	p. 89
Found in Translation	p. 97
Banana Fuck	p. 103
A Stick in the Mud	p. 107
Snaking Fate	p. 117
Survival of the Least Fit	p. 125
You Can Run	p. 129
Step One	p. 133
Milena the Exception	p. 139
A Gay Old Time	p. 143
Everything But the Ocean	p. 151
Ruts in Stone	p. 159
The Greatest Show on Earth	p. 165
Of Cons and Convents	p. 171
The Ugly American	p. 177
Coroico or Bust	p. 181
Goddess and the Garca	p. 187
Hooters	p. 195
Community	p. 201
The Ugly American Part 2: The Vengeance	p. 221
Crutches in Cartagena	p. 225
Play It Again	p. 233
Game Over	p. 239
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