| Description |
xvii, 299 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Dutton, 2007. |
| Summary |
A collection of twenty-eight essays celebrates the friendships between straight women and gay men and includes contributions by Andrew Solomon, Simon Doonan, and Cindy Chupack. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Armistead Maupin -- Introduction / Melissa de la Cruz and Tom Dolby -- 1: Gays And Gals -- Shop girls/ Karen Robinovitz -- Fags hags: the laughter, the tears, the marabou / Simon Doonan -- Collectors / K M Soehnlein -- My fairy godfathers / Cecil Castellucci -- That unsettling feeling / Mike Albo -- 2: Close Confidants -- Harvard (fag) hag-iography / Alexandra Jacobs -- My best girlfriend / James Lecesne -- My dinners with Tom / Gigi Levangie Grazer -- Man's best friend / David Ebershoff -- Marriage material / Wendy Mass -- 3: Fine Romance -- Everything I always wanted to know about sex (and life) I learned from gay men / Stacey Ballis -- Love in other lifetimes / Anna David -- Future perfect / Tom Dolby -- Manhattan love story / Melissa de la Cruz -- Super couple / Sarah Kate Levy -- Get this / Cindy Chupack -- 4: Growing Up, Coming Out -- Good girls / David Levithan -- Welcome to my dollhouse / Michael Musto -- Donnie and Marie don't get married / Brian Sloan -- Life before gays / Elizabeth Spiers -- Long trip home / Zakiyyah Alexander -- Lay it all down / Edwin John Wintle -- Shutterspeed / Bennett Madison -- 5: Fathers And Daughters, Mothers And Sons -- In praise of women / Andrew Solomon -- Family albums / Philip Himberg -- Like father, like daughter / Abigail Garner -- Sitting in the dark with my mother / Zach Udko -- Darling, I like you that way / Ayelet Waldman -- Acknowledgments -- About the contributors. |
| Subject |
Gay men -- Relations with heterosexual women -- Anecdotes.
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Gay men -- Relations with heterosexual women. |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| Subject |
Friendship -- Anecdotes.
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Friendship. |
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Gay men. |
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Friendships. |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-
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Dolby, Tom.
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| ISBN |
9780452289611 (paperback) |
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0452289610 (paperback) |
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