From the dates-from-hell to love-at-first-sight, Boy Meets Boy is the ultimate rumination about romance, dating, and/or sex for the modern gay man. This collection of observations, anecdotes, essays, wishful thinking, and out-and-out lies celebrates and bemoans all the experiences that collectively compose that mixed blessing called "dating." Ranging in tone from cute and romantic to bitchy and hilarious, with contributions from Matthew Rettenmund, Barry Lowe, Michael Lassell, D. Travers Scott, David Feinberg, Kerry Bashford, and Larry Duplechan, Boy Meets Boy is touching, amusing, heartwarming, and laugh-out-loud funny as it memorializes (and viciously mocks) the absurd situations, embarrassing moments, and the (all-too-rare) limerance that occurs when...well...boy meets boy.
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As he writes this biographical note, Lawrence Schimel is the author or editor of twenty-seven books, and happens to also be twenty-seven years old. As he commented in a recent interview, he neither smokes nor drinks although he does have his vices-namely boys and a sweet tooth; presumably, if he had different vices, he would have published fewer books.
He is the author of the short story collections The Drag Queen of Elfland and His Tongue and the editor of numerous anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, PoMoSexuals, Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (with Carol Queen; lambda Literary Award winner), Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica (with Carol Queen), Two Hearts Desire: Gay Couples on Their Love (with Michael Lassell), Food for Life and Other Dish, and Kosher Meat. His stories, essays, and poetry have been included in more than 150 anthologies, among others: Best Gay Erotica 1997 and 1998, The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories, Gay Love Poetry, The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales, The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories, and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse. He has also contributed to numerous periodicals, from The Saturday Evening Post to Physics Today to Gay Scotland. His writings have been published abroad in Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish translations.
He currently divides his time between his native New York City and Madrid.
He is the author of the short story collections The Drag Queen of Elfland and His Tongue and the editor of numerous anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, PoMoSexuals, Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (with Carol Queen; lambda Literary Award winner), Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica (with Carol Queen), Two Hearts Desire: Gay Couples on Their Love (with Michael Lassell), Food for Life and Other Dish, and Kosher Meat. His stories, essays, and poetry have been included in more than 150 anthologies, among others: Best Gay Erotica 1997 and 1998, The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories, Gay Love Poetry, The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales, The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories, and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse. He has also contributed to numerous periodicals, from The Saturday Evening Post to Physics Today to Gay Scotland. His writings have been published abroad in Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish translations.
He currently divides his time between his native New York City and Madrid.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Genuinely hilarious and sexy to boot,
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I laughed (a lot), I sighed (a lot) and after I finished this hilarious book of war stories from the dating game, I just wanted to dive right back into the dating pool. Anybody who thinks that dating stories can't be funny and sexy at the same time should check this book out and see how it's done.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Lots of laughs!,
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This book was really excellent. I picked it up because I'm a fan of Schimel's other work, and I found it to be lighthearted, fun, and FUNNY. All the stories kept me entertained, especially Schimel's own "Tom, Dick or Harry." I want to give this as a gift to lots of my friends because I think they'd also enjoy it. If you're looking for amusement and a bit of wry humor, this book is for you!
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It features a Patrick Barnes story!,
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You ought to buy the book for this story, "Skin Deep", alone. All the stories are great, but this one is a classic!
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When I signed on to the Internet, back in 1994-way before it was the mass medium it is today, when it was still controlled largely by propeller heads and a few of us cool people who had slipped under the radar-I had only one purpose in mind: I was going to find me a man on this thing! Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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When I signed on to the Internet, back in 1994-way before it was the mass medium it is today, when it was still controlled largely by propeller heads and a few of us cool people who had slipped under the radar-I had only one purpose in mind: I was going to find me a man on this thing! Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Jersey, Madame Acacia, Señor Sexy, Different Light, Los Angeles New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica by Lawrence Schimel in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Two Hearts Desire: Gay Couples on Their Love (Stonewall Inn Book Series) by Michael Lassell in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Boy culture by M. Rettenmund in Back Matter
- A Flame for the Touch That Matters by Michael Lassell in Back Matter
- Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism by Lawrence Schimel in Front Matter
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- His Tongue: Stories by Lawrence Schimel in Back Cover
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