Description
This book is a light-hearted and sensitive appreciation of Life by Two Lovers. Elijah Clark and John Nichols (more familiarly known as Lige and Jack) live gaily in New York, in every sense of the word. Editors of the popular homosexual publication GAY, they explode the myth of tortured homosexual by their own telling of their trips to gay meccas all over North America, describing gay nightlife in the big city (including a drag ball where they are the judges), recalling such light-hearted Adventures as a softball game between the staff of SCREW (for which they write a column) and the cast of HAIR. There is a serious side to these Memoirs, as Jack and Lige recall their family backgrounds, how they met, Lige’s Army experiences in the Pentagon and Jack’s with the Washington Mattachine Society. They have perceptive comments to make about gay lib and politics, Gay Culture, their friends (both male and female, gay and straight) and the significance of their lives together. Jack and Lige write not so much as homosexuals, but rather as liberated human beings, and there's much in their story to enjoy and reflect upon regardless of sexual preference.
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
200 pages
Language
English
Published
Sep 1, 1976
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0900997907
ISBN-13
9780900997907