book excerpt

“You know, it surprised me that you told me you were nervous.”

The women were just so intoxicating. My gut reacted to each scent, each glimpse. That’s the devil, I said to my weakening spirit, you have to ignore it.

The worst thing about being the only gay man you know getting a divorce is that you are the only gay man anyone knows who’s getting a divorce.

Being with them where they battled the demons of the night tore my heart in two.

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.