Friends and Lovers

by Preston, John; Lowenthal, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780525938583
• ISBN10: 0525938583
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-05-01
• Publisher: E P Dutton

Summary

Gay men have always created their own families. While some replace the "blood" kin who have rejected or denied their sexual orientation, others intentionally choose to build new kinds of families, often ingeniously rewriting the rules society has prescribed. In this collection of powerful stories, Christopher Bram, Larry Duplechan, Michael Bronski, Andrew Hollran, and many others offer heartfelt assessments of the effort to create a place where one can belong.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Gay AA: a family of my own	p. 11
Friends	p. 31
I'll cry tomorrow: Susan Hayward, summer nights, and the scent of memory	p. 39
Historical notes: the collective	p. 49
Home alone: a lifelong search for an alternative family	p. 59
Three friends, sunday morning, late coffee and oranges	p. 69
A eulogy for George	p. 83
A marriage manual	p. 95
Sweet Gregory blue eyes	p. 107
The marriage of Michael and Bill	p. 111
Nicholas	p. 125
We three	p. 137
Rock climbing	p. 151
Everything possible	p. 161
Looking for brothers: Barney, Chris, and me	p. 177
Summer at the beach: a memoir of friendship and Fire Island	p. 189
Letting it in	p. 205
A cloak and dildo story	p. 217
A whole new world	p. 225
Roots	p. 237
George and Al and John and others	p. 247
Alex, Hassan, and Michael	p. 259
Notes of an adopted son	p. 271
Family album	p. 281
Contributors	p. 301
Copyrights	p. 307
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