The stirring chronicle of one man's remarkable life. Covering the years 1933-1946, Donald Vining's Diary portrays a long-vanished age and the lifestyle of a gay generation all too frequently forgotten. A touching and revealing volume documenting the surprisingly vibrant culture that existed decades before Stonewall, A Gay Diary is not to be missed by anyone interested in gay American history.
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A refreshing dip back into a gay world and consciousness which even many of us who lived through it had almost forgotten: not the world of oppression we read so much about nowadays (though that certainly existed) but a world of joy and adventure, surreptitious but not always all that dangerous.... The book is a jewel.
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A Gay Diary is, unquestionably, the richest historical document of gay male life in the United States that I have ever encountered.... It chronicles a whole life in which homosexuality is but one part and an ever-changing part at that. And, it illuminates a critical period in gay male American history. -- Body Politic
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A Gay Diary Dissapoints,
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This review is from: A Gay Diary: 1933-1946 (Paperback)
I was very disappointed with this book. This is, ostensibly, the story of an interesting person (Donald Vining) in an interesting industry (theater) in an interesting place (Yale and New York City) in an interesting time (1930s and 1940s). But this book came across like reading someone's DayRunner. I did this...I did that. People surface and disappear with no explanation. There is no attempt to analyze or even really comment on anything that is mentioned in the text; be it a play, a famous director, the author's motives or even World War II. For instance, it would have been interesting to understand what formed the author's pacifist beliefs and what effect holding these beliefs had upon him, his family, his friends or his career.
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