This unique compilation of stories offers a sophisticated alternative to anything goes gay literature. Challenging the stereotype that gay men are incapable of lasting, nurturing relationships, 15 long-term gay couples share slices of their own lives as they have lived them, giving you insight into their present relationships and discussing mates who have passed on. Full of triumphs over society and personal obstacles, Longtime Companions highlights a richly fulfilling alternative to the useless, no-future life of promiscuity and shows you the nurturing and inspiring power of monogamous gay male relationships.…mehr
This unique compilation of stories offers a sophisticated alternative to anything goes gay literature. Challenging the stereotype that gay men are incapable of lasting, nurturing relationships, 15 long-term gay couples share slices of their own lives as they have lived them, giving you insight into their present relationships and discussing mates who have passed on. Full of triumphs over society and personal obstacles, Longtime Companions highlights a richly fulfilling alternative to the useless, no-future life of promiscuity and shows you the nurturing and inspiring power of monogamous gay male relationships.
Contents We're Not Lost, We're Here * Foreword * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Casting for Couples: The Ones That Got Away * Enter: Key West! * Come to the Cabaret * Then, a Sour Note (with Chorus) * The Monogamy Issue * Just One More Thing * Marry Us * The Joint Accounts * The Ballad of Eddie and Scott * Park Bench to Forever * Surviving the Cure (Roy) * Corroborative Testimony * Loss of Sharing: The Bereavement Continues * The Poems * Your Presence in Absentia * Arriving at Some End * Final Acts * And So to Endure * Married--with Children * Okinawa Honeymoon * Across Boundaries * Growing Up Apart * Getting Together * A Walk on the Wild Side * The Career-Path Years * The Moves * The Queen City * Lives Long Entwined: Comments (at Forty-Seven Years) on a Committed Relationship * Life Doesn't Begin at Forty (but It Starts Getting Better) * The Stanford Start * Careers and Finances * Cultural Pursuits in Tandem * How Many Corners on a Globe? * Friends and Social Life * Problems? Well, Al's Had Only One (but It"s Been a Pip!) * The Retirement Project * Coda * Update * Fraternity Brothers * A Long Road for Soul Mates * The Rise from Rascals * Life in the Hollywood Hills * Life As a Charleston Hustler * Life Ever Since * A Bond Strengthened by Grief * Opposites Attract: Enduring Clashes in Personality, Generation, and Culture * Together at the Bars * Dance to the Music * Prelude * The Hesitation Waltz * Grand Pas de Deux * Fleshdance * Anniversary Waltz * The Tea Dance from Hell * The Court Ball * The Stagestruck Strut * The Tropical Two-Step * The Phoenix Fandango * The Dance of Death * Coda * The Testosterone Tarantella * Going for the Gold * Fifty Years Later--The Dinner Party Speech
Contents We're Not Lost, We're Here * Foreword * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Casting for Couples: The Ones That Got Away * Enter: Key West! * Come to the Cabaret * Then, a Sour Note (with Chorus) * The Monogamy Issue * Just One More Thing * Marry Us * The Joint Accounts * The Ballad of Eddie and Scott * Park Bench to Forever * Surviving the Cure (Roy) * Corroborative Testimony * Loss of Sharing: The Bereavement Continues * The Poems * Your Presence in Absentia * Arriving at Some End * Final Acts * And So to Endure * Married--with Children * Okinawa Honeymoon * Across Boundaries * Growing Up Apart * Getting Together * A Walk on the Wild Side * The Career-Path Years * The Moves * The Queen City * Lives Long Entwined: Comments (at Forty-Seven Years) on a Committed Relationship * Life Doesn't Begin at Forty (but It Starts Getting Better) * The Stanford Start * Careers and Finances * Cultural Pursuits in Tandem * How Many Corners on a Globe? * Friends and Social Life * Problems? Well, Al's Had Only One (but It"s Been a Pip!) * The Retirement Project * Coda * Update * Fraternity Brothers * A Long Road for Soul Mates * The Rise from Rascals * Life in the Hollywood Hills * Life As a Charleston Hustler * Life Ever Since * A Bond Strengthened by Grief * Opposites Attract: Enduring Clashes in Personality, Generation, and Culture * Together at the Bars * Dance to the Music * Prelude * The Hesitation Waltz * Grand Pas de Deux * Fleshdance * Anniversary Waltz * The Tea Dance from Hell * The Court Ball * The Stagestruck Strut * The Tropical Two-Step * The Phoenix Fandango * The Dance of Death * Coda * The Testosterone Tarantella * Going for the Gold * Fifty Years Later--The Dinner Party Speech
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