Queer Stories For Boys: True Stories From The Gay Men's Storytelling Workshop

What does "queer" really mean? Gay? Peculiar? Outside the mainstream? Odd? Oversexed? Naughty? Rebel? Punk? Queer Stories for Boys is queer in every sense of the word. Based at Greenwich Village's Gay and Lesbian Center, Queer Stories for Boys is a longtime storytelling workshop for gay men, dedicated to fostering the growth of gay writers and performers. Editor Doug McKeown has collected here twenty-five of the most engaging, touching, scandalous, and more often than not, hilarious stories from this group of emerging talents. A motley collection of M.B.A.s and M.F.A.s, truck drivers, actors, and dancers, New York natives and out-of-towners, Queer Stories has created an open forum where artists cultivate and refine their work and help each other generate ideas. For the past twelve years, Queer Stories has been organizing public evenings featuring some of the group's most talented storytellers telling their own true stories-- imagine a succession of gay Spalding Grays. This anthology re-creates just such an evening, between two covers. And all the stories are true--at least as true as they are queer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560256508
• ISBN13: 9781560256502
• Release Date: January 1802
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Pr
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Queer and True

These stories are as honest as they are queer. Ranging the gamut from tragic to comic, they encapsulate what is often missing in descriptions of gay men: their humanity, their families, and their lovers. These men tell the stories of how they have managed to find themselves - and happiness - at a time when the public seems more interested in what they do than in who they are. Queer Stories for Boys reminds us of the people behind the political diatribes, and does so with elegance, wit, sadness and joy.