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• Los Angeles
• San Francisco
• Portland and Seattle
• Santa Fe, Salt Lake City, and Denver
• Texas
• The Midwest
• Florida and the South
• New York City
• Boston and Washington, D.C.
• Epilogue: Self-criticism.

States of Desire Revisited looks back from the twenty-first century at a pivotal moment in the late 1970s: Gay Liberation was a new and flourishing movement of creative culture, political activism, and sexual freedom, just before the 1980s devastation of AIDS. Edmund White traveled America, recording impressions of gay individuals and communities that remain perceptive and captivating today. He noted politicos in D.C. working the system, in-fighting radicals in New York and San Francisco, butch guys in Houston and self-loathing but courteous gentlemen in Memphis, the ""Fifties in Deep Freeze"" in Kansas City, progressive thinkers with conservative style in Minneapolis and Portland, wealth and beauty in Los Angeles, and, in Santa Fe, a desert retreat for older gays and lesbians since the 1920s. White frames those past travels with a brief, bracing review of gay America since the 1970s (""now we were all supposed to settle down with a partner in the suburbs and adopt a Korean daughter""), and a reflection on how Internet culture has diminished unique gay places and scenes but brought isolated individuals into a global GLBTQ community.
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Following "A Boy's Own Story" (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed "The Beautiful Room Is Empty, " here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man. His witty, conversational narrative transports us from the '60s to the near present, from starkly erotic scenes in the back rooms of New York clubs to episodes of rarefied hilarity in the salons of Paris to moments of family truth in the American Midwest. Along the way, a breathtaking variety of personal connections -- and near- misses -- slowly builds an awareness of the transformative power of genuine friendship, of love and loss, culminating in an indelible experience with a dying man. And as the flow of memory carries us across time, space and society, one man's magnificently realized story grows to encompass an entire generation. Sublimely funny yet elegiac, full of unsparingly trenchant social observation yet infused with wisdom and a deeply felt compassion, "The Farewell Symphony" is a triumph of reflection and expressive elegance. It is also a stunning and wholly original panorama of gay life over the past 30 years -- the crowning achievement of one of our finest writers.
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• Little men
• Santa
• Father and son
• Zoo story
• Chain of fools
• Spread eagle
• Corpse
• A love like that
• Brother and sister
• Philosophy
• Who is Kevin Killian?

This book is a collection of prose pieces, the line between fact and fancy, between actuality and invention is constantly blurred.
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Comments by the author accompany his selection of elegies and poems about AIDS, grief, love, and perseverance.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Research Methods
• 3. Living in Rural Communities
• 4. Relating to Families
• 5. Establishing a Sexual Identity
• 6. Developing Partnerships
• 7. Engaging in Sexual Behavior
• 8. Conclusions. Appendix A: Tables.
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Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D'Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men, providing unique and hitherto unknown perspectives on their experiences coping with intolerance. With sensitivity and humor, the authors narrate their attempts at accessing this hidden population in bars, campgrounds, social clubs, and political groups. This volume is a must-read for researchers, academics, and graduate and post-graduate students in health care, nursing, health policy, and social and psychological science.
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• Introduction
• On knitting
• On casual sex
• On cheerleading
• On camp camp
• On dating
• On teaching aerobics
• On musical theatre
• On go-go dancing
• On exodus
• Acknowledgements.

Joel Derfner is gayer than you. Don't feel too bad about it, though, because he has made being gayer than you his life's work. At summer day camp, when he was six, Derfner tried to sign up for needlepoint and flower arranging, but the camp counselors wouldn't let him, because, they said, those activities were for girls only. Derfner, just to be contrary, embarked that very day on a solemn and sacred quest: to become the gayest person ever. Along the way he has become a fierce knitter, an even fiercer musical theater composer, and so totally the fiercest step aerobics instructor (just ask him--he'll tell you himself). In "Swish, " Derfner takes his readers on a flamboyant adventure along the glitter-strewn road from fabulous to divine. Whether he's confronting the demons of his past at a GLBT summer camp, using the Internet to "meet" men--many, many men--or plunging headfirst (and nearly naked) into the shady world of go-go dancing, he reveals himself with every gayer-than-thou flourish to be not just a stylish explorer but also a fearless one. So fearless, in fact, that when he sneaks into a conference for people who want to cure themselves of their homosexuality, he turns the experience into one of the most fascinating, deeply moving chapters of the book. Derfner, like King Arthur, Christopher Columbus, and Indiana Jones--but with a better haircut and a much deeper commitment to fad diets--is a hero destined for legend. Written with wicked humor and keen insight, "Swish" is at once a hilarious look at contemporary ideas about gay culture and a poignant exploration of identity that will speak to all readers--gay, straight, and in between.
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When Thomas Hobart boards a train and heads west to attend college in Chicago, he leaves behind a world of unspoken feeling. On the train he meets Dennis, a conductor, and every Thursday evening for the next year they meet in a downtown hotel for a series of passionate, next-to-wordless encounters. "Love without lust, lust without love" becomes Thomas's motto, and, true to it, he keeps his liaisons with Dennis a secret from his newfound college friends Michael and Jane. When Dennis ventures to break the pattern of their affair and enter Thomas's world, their relationship fails. But everything Thomas has come to believe in is called into question when he visits New York City and meets Stuart, a handsome, enigmatic painter. Thomas quickly becomes immersed in Stuart's artistic life, and just as quickly becomes lost in the complications of love. Not until his own life has fallen apart does Thomas begin to locate the sources of his feelings, to recognize his need to join love and sex, desire and obligation, carnal satisfaction and emotional fulfillment.
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A fascinating study of gay lifestyles sheds light on the social and ethical experiments that are evolving among gay men, including high levels of altruism, care-taking, and volunteerism as well as various rituals of eroticism and sexuality. Reprint.
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This book explores the uses of gay men's folklore. Whether funny or sad, poignant or shocking, each story and joke contains messages, sometimes surprising ones. Goodwin decodes some of these messages to help us understand not only the gay subculture but also ourselves.
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Presents the results of three recent studies on aging in homosexual men, focusing on their lives, relationships, hopes and fears, and attitudes about AIDS. Topics include challenges to stereotypes of the older gay male, ageism and heterosexism, social life, and sexual behavior. For undergraduate an.
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• Introduction
• Nothing in common. Generations. That was then, this is now. No oldies, please. No kids allowed. Us versus them. Separate ways
• The myths of time. Myth one : kids these days. Myth two : caught in the net. Myth three : the chicken hawk syndrome. Myth four : the Menudo complex. Myth five : lets talk about sex
• Forever young? A brief history of time. Men at work. Dressing the part. Hair we go. Hair we go, again. Mens fitness. Like a surgeon. Extras, extras. Time marches on
• The untouchables. The lost boys. Hatred in the hallways. You sexy thing. The end of the innocence. The XY files. Young people at risk. No sex, please. I feel like chicken tonight. Big brother is watching you
• Bridging the gap. Legends of the fall. When two worlds collide. The twinkie defense. Friends, indeed. The eyes of a boy
• After the fire. Hope I die before I get old. Outing age. Awakenings. Left behind. We always had each other. Rainbows end
• The life in your years. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Stuck in the middle. The truth about money. Over the rainbow
• The numbers game.

Examines the "two tribe" mentality about age that divides the gay male community in to "us" and "them". Illustrates the gay community's attitudes toward age and the rites of passage associated with certain age and the rites of passage associated with certain age groups.
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Illustrating the wide range of emotions at work in younger/older gay male relationships - from fear and loathing to love and happiness. Acclaimed author Tim Bergling examines the "two tribe" mentality about age that divides the gay male community into "us" and "them". He explores the gay experience through young, middle-aged and elderly viewpoints, including relationships, dating younger guys, dating older guys, the internet, sex, drugs, alcohol, HIV/AIDS, fitness, plastic surgery, retirement, harassment and discrimination. In their own words, hundreds of men discuss what it's like to be 16, 28, 40 or 70, examining the myths and realities about growing old gay.
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A clinical psychologist, writer and gay activist reflects on what it means to be gay today through moving stories of friends and patients in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic and shifting social values. --Publisher