• 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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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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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

Writings that range from the street-smart to the erudite, from the erotic to the political and spiritual, this collection explores the crosscurrents of pressures that black gay men face, and the ways they have coped with them - or failed to.'.
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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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The critically and popularly acclaimed coming of age/coming out story from the author of "Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir." "Witty as it is anguished and as full of understanding as of anger, this is Monette's best book."-- "Booklist".
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The critically and popularly acclaimed coming of age/coming out story from the author of "Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir." "Witty as it is anguished and as full of understanding as of anger, this is Monette's best book."-- "Booklist".
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