States of Desire: Travels In Gay America
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0525222359 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"History of Gay Memphis Visit included in Book!" according to Steven Solomon. Just wanted it for my collection as it includes author's description of a party we gave in Memphis that he attended while in Memphis, TN.
In this city-by-city description of the way homosexual men lived in the late seventies, Edmund White gives us a picture of Gay America that will surprise gay and straight readers alike. Above all, White shows the remarkable possibilities for gay life today—from the black gay ghettos of Atlanta to communes in New England; from "friendship networks" in New York City to New Orleans-style "uptown marriages" (in which men live with wife and children uptown and keep a boy in the Quarter); from Kansas City, where the self-oppression of 1950s