Twenty-seven gay writers--including Andrew Holleran and Christopher Bram--explore the places they think of as their homes and create a telling portrait of gay identity, culture, and community. Reprint.
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From Publishers Weekly
Less about geography than about the need to belong, these 28 gay writers' moving essays about their sense of home elucidate the adolescent disenfranchisement of gay males in small communities. BOMC and QPB selections in cloth.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Believing that "the context within which we grow up helps determine how we see the world," Preston asked 28 gay writers to consider their hometowns, either their birthplace, or the place they've chosen to live as adults. Among the wide-ranging essays are Michael Nava's recollection of his family dynamics in the poor Mexican community of Gardenland, Sacramento, California; Harlan Greene's bittersweet reminiscence of growing up Jewish in Charleston, South Carolina; and Lev Raphael's piece on establishing a home with his lover in Okemos, Michigan. Illustrating an increase over the last 30 years in the options of how and where gay men choose to live, these consistently powerful writings, poignantly personal, achieve a universality in their themes of alienation and community.
- James E. Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- James E. Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Les K Wright was awarded a four-year National Merit Scholarship and a New York State Regents Scholarship to attend the State University of New York at Albany, where he majored in Comparative Literature, with concentrations in German and Russian. He attended the Universities of Würzburg (1 year) and Tübingen (4 years), and completed his MA and PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. Co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California, and founder of the Bear History Project, Les K. Wright taught Humanities, English, and Film Studies at Mount Ida College, where he received tenure in 1999. He has also taught German and Russian (Hamilton College), and Human Sexuality (Worcester State).
He is the editor and co-author or two books, The Bear Book and The Beak Book II, and has contributed to several other anthologies, including Hometowns: Gay Men Write about Where They Belong and Bears on Bears, among others. He reviews film for CultureVulture.net. At present he lives with his husband in Humboldt County, California. He is featured in Dan Hunt's documentary video Bear Run. Also see: Les K. Wright Papers, Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University.
He is the editor and co-author or two books, The Bear Book and The Beak Book II, and has contributed to several other anthologies, including Hometowns: Gay Men Write about Where They Belong and Bears on Bears, among others. He reviews film for CultureVulture.net. At present he lives with his husband in Humboldt County, California. He is featured in Dan Hunt's documentary video Bear Run. Also see: Les K. Wright Papers, Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University.
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Superb essays on gay writers' sense of where they are from,
By Stephen O. Murray "Stephen O. Murray" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong (Plume) (Mass Market Paperback)
The late John Preston's collections of essays by American gay male writers about where they live now or lived when they were growing up is always interesting and often insightful. Among other things, it shows that the elite (creationist) discourse about social construction remains very far from the lived experience of even articulate and reflective natives. Michael Nava's memoir of Sacramento and Jesse Monteagudo's of Miami struck me tas the most poignant and insightful. The absence of any Asian-Americans was noticeable. It would be interesting to know if American lesbian writers have similar senses of place and to link these splendid accounts to theories of cognition of place, but these are both other projects.
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