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ISBN-10: 0816642680
ISBN-13: 9780816642687
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publish Date: 04/22/2003
Dimensions: 8.94" L, 5.91" W, 0.67" H

Young Man from the Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall

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An insider’s account of gay high society in pre-Stonewall New York City–now back in print

Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship because of his sexual orientation, he soon became an object of desire in a gay underground scene frequented by, among many others, Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstein, and Marlene Dietrich. In this unusually vivid and sensitive account, Helms describes the business of being a sex object and its psychological and physical toll.

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"Extraordinary and elegantly written. A record of a gay world that has virtually disappeared over the past twenty-five years of liberation and fifteen years of AIDS."
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Details

ISBN-10: 0816642680
ISBN-13: 9780816642687
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publish Date: 04/22/2003
Dimensions: 8.94" L, 5.91" W, 0.67" H
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