Young Man From The Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Young Man From The Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall
By (Author) Alan Helms
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st July 2003
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
305.389664
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 18mm
Description
Returning to print, this insiderAs view of pre-Stonewall high class homosexual lifestyles retraces the authorAs journey from his backwards Midwestern town to Manhattan in the 1950s. Reprint.
Reviews
"A beautifully written memoir. Helms sped through the celebrity-packed fast lanes, but he has learned how to stand back and get some perspective."
"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."
"Sublimely funny, engaging, pathetic, highly literary, and painful to read. Helms seems like a gay Everyman whose quest for self-knowledge, respect, and contentment in this contemptuous world mirrors that of many other marginalized people."
