book excerpt

For a particular generation of gay men, author Edmund White’s semi-autobiographical novel, A Boy’s Own Story, is a foundational text.

The women were finally betrayed in 1944. The Germans imprisoned them, tried them and sentenced them to death.

While my sisters transformed our living room into a delivery room, I went upstairs to become pregnant.

“We hugged, we kissed, and then she said to me, ‘Oh, my dear, we should take a bubble bath!’”

The gay activists who converged on Washington on Dec. 15, 1973, were the first group of patients in history to insist that they were not sick.

Peter Gajdics’ psychiatrist assured him he could be “cured” of homosexuality if he only followed these outrageous and horrifying techniques.