Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970s SoMa and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1890834033 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It catches the heady ferment of the early years in SoMa. Its matter-of-fact and unpretentious narrative is delivered in a friendly voice. It hasheart. Sassafras Lowrey, "Lambda Literary Review" . Let me tell you, Jim Stewart is a master storyteller and he is all the more special because the stories he tells really happened." Reviews by Amos Lassen"Stewart's jaunty memoir of his years living in the Folsomis chronicled with gustoa splendid memory, an easy wit and a way with words. He photog
RedBeardNOLA said Strangers in Common. I've visited many times but never lived in SF, I chose Manhattan as my refuge. That said, now nearing 60, Folsom Street Blues is all so familiar. The names and places may be different but the memories will live forever. I too had to escape and went back to a Midwestern university. I'll never forget during the first few weeks of classes thinking about where I would have been and what I would have been doing We lived complex lives on the fringe. Jim Stewart is ma. Lee Lee said Great history of the times. I have always been fascinated by this period of time in gay culture, pre AIDS when everyone felt free and safe to explore. This book tells it so well, I felt like I was there. A must read for every gay man!. "Great historical prespective" according to Lew57. For anyone, gay or straight, who wants to understand how and why we are where we are today should read this book. I found it very interesting, and reminiscent of gay life in San Francisco years ago from one particular point of view. Well done.
Folsom Street Blues continues his gift for words and images with manic, funny, and heartfelt profiles of real people who lived as if 1970s San Francisco were 1930s Berlin. Veterans of the 1970s party will applaud Stewart's humorous nostalgia. Like Christopher Isherwood, Stewart is a camera. Folsom Street Blues is a picture-perfect portrait of the author as a young man among men experimenting with new identities in the sexual underground during the Titanic 1970s before the speeding first-class party, cruising on, crashed into the iceberg of HIV. Younger readers may enjoy a safe peek into how 20th-century leatherfolk, dancing on tables and swinging from the chandeliers, helped found and form 21st-century diversity. As
1942), with both camera and pen, has recorded gay culture forged in San Francisco's South of Market district. Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970s SoMa and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco lets the reader experience gay life as Stewart experienced it.Stewart grew up a farm boy. His 21st summer he hitch hiked throughout Europe. De