Rough Time Treks Gay Men [Kindle Edition]

Madeira Desouza (Author)

Book Description

Third edition with revised title -- January 2013: This is a science fiction time travel novel spanning hundreds of pages of text without illustrations. It was previously available with various other titles that did not work well from a marketing perspective.

What's it all about? A time travel agent from the future is sent on a mission back to the 1990s where he meets a male sex worker in Nevada, a personal trainer in Arizona who is living in denial about being gay, and, a young man from New Orleans who uses his psychic powers to take sexual advantage of other men. Their behaviors during the 1990s create quite a mess in the timelines on Earth that must be repaired to spare many people in the future from untimely deaths.

You can access the author's website http://MadeiraDesouza.com where you can enjoy his illustrations intended to accompany this novel.

Learn more about the author at http://madeiradesouza.brandyourself.com/

Product Details

• File Size: 435 KB
• Print Length: 223 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008HGJSX4
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #772,969 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

I was born in the United States into a Portuguese-American culture dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. That culture showed no room for anything but macho and tough males, who were expected to produce babies after getting married to a subservient woman. In that culture, the more tough a man looked and acted, and the higher the number of offspring he generated earned him a higher perceived masculinity.

Growing up in that culture ensured my social programming was to think that I was straight. Eventually, I discovered the truth that I am gay and then I had to redefine and remake myself.

My formal university education was in journalism, which taught me the art and craft of storytelling, photography, news reporting, etc. In the professional context, I learned that telling a story is an essential ingredient if one wants to connect with an audience.

I am unlike many gay authors. I tell stories and create illustrations about masculine men involved with one another to provoke the viewer.

I have seen all my life how straight people do not like to see masculine men showing affection towards one another. Straight people will accept drag shows and comedies about effeminate gay men. And why not? Those are non-threatening. But, if masculine men are depicted in a story or images showing sexual interest in one another, oh boy, that suddenly becomes very threatening to straight people!

Some gay men I have encountered also find it uncomfortable to witness masculine men showing sexual interest in one another. Gays relegate such masculine men to the pejorative category of being "too butch." For all of these reasons, I choose to provoke the viewer in my stories and illustrations.