Survival Kit: A Complete Guidance Manual for Gay Men

Brass, Perry

Firsthand Ltd

Sex-Charge

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Belhue Pr

The author of Mirage and Circles presents a collection of sensual, funny, and insightful short stories that explore the realities of the gay world. Original.

Works and Other "Smoky George" Stories

United States

Out There: Stories of Private Desires, Horror and the Afterlife

Albert is the story of two worlds - our own, in the midst of political and cultural turmoil - and Ki, a tiny pristine planet, besieged by tribal war and the threat of overpopulation, where gay men mate for life and possess the Egg of the Eye, a third testicle that allows them to listen to the thoughts of others, to reproduce, and to transcend space and time. Using his Egg, Albert, the endangered son of a Same-Sex male couple from Ki, will be reborn on Earth. The year is 2025, after the fundamentalist White Christian Party has taken over a divided America. Traveling through a nation split among fundamentalist strongholds and "gay reserves," Albert will find the Earth mate who will claim his heart - and allow him to return to Ki and reclaim leadership of the planet. Mesmerizing, erotic, and truthful, Albert is the story of two men - and two worlds - finally merging in these amazing chronicles of The Book Of Man. There, as the gay Everyman at the crossroads of life, death, and identity, Albert will tell his own story and define the ultimate tribe from which he comes.

Albert: Or the Book of Man

Works and Other Smoky George Stories is a collection of gay short stories that reads like a novel with many different episodes. What ties it all together is the voice of "Smoky George," the narrator. Smoky is sexually adventurous but socially shy. He is the sort who doesn't kiss and tell, but if prodded enough will tell. In these stories he does tell. Many of the stories take place in unusual settings, such as a hunting camp in the Adirondacks, a steamer in the Pacific, the bayous of Louisiana, a farm in Ohio and the more usual settings of Manhattan and New Orleans' steamy, sensual French Quarter. What makes "Works and Other Smoky George Stories" different from other books of gay short stories is that one) they are often outrageously funny as well as outrageously sexy; and two) they combine all the classic elements of men's stories-tension, plot, character, and Indiana-Jones-type adventures, with a dose of old-fashioned class and a whamo-dollop of sex. What Brass wanted to do when writing the Smoky tales was to get gay stories out of what he called the "ghetto of confessional writing," in other words, stories about sad young men who have problems with their mothers, and write the kind of rip-roaring, action adventures he loved as a kid; with a lot of gay-positive, sex-positive attitudes in them as well. So the models for these stories were for the most part "classic stories." As he put it, if Somerset Maugham had written modern gay stories, he would have written these stories, and some editors have compared the narrator who goes by the name "Smoky George" to Maugham himself. In this expanded edition of Works, the author, who for years was better known as a poet, has also included a selection of his steamy, always controversial poetry, and an essay called " "Maybe We Should Keep the 'Porn' in Pornography."

Wise. Factual. Often controversial. Not simply about how to survive your own gay life, but how to how survive your life as an adult man whose sexuality brings him to other men. Surviving when gays have become -- often for marketing reasons -- more publicly acknowledged as well as repressed. When many revered gay feelings, such as tenderness and openness to new ideas and people, are denied; even as wildly homoerotic images have become part of our media-saturated culture. How to Survive Your Own Gay Life explores this, but -- more importantly, how to create rewarding relationships and a strengthening inner life.
There has never been a book like this. One of the fortunate things about being gay is that it was written for you. But it's a book for every man. It's message is about getting in touch with the adult person inside you. The person that we all need to survive our lives -- gay or not.
But if you are gay, this book is about your life. About "straight" relationships as well as gay ones. About the commercialized "gay world" of bars, etc. -- that acts against adulthood, as well as the gay community at large, and how both affect you.
About important inner spiritual "gay work"; and the "gay tribe" that is our hidden support. About the crucial "mythos" of being gay -- providing psychic patterning for gay men, and the strange history of gay "origins myths" and how these reflect society's obsession with same-sexuality.
Also some real "nuts-and-bolts" wisdom: about the joys and problems of gay marriages and friendships. About dealing with conflicts and crises -- personal, professional, and financial. About surviving -- and preventing -- gaybashing. And about working your way throughthe late 20th Century's generalized environment of depression (our "Prozac nation") and coming out more alive, happier, and stronger.

How to Survive Your Own Gay Life: An Adult Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships

Self-Help

Relationships

In June of 1965, after a year of intimidation and persecution at the University of Georgia in Athens, seventeen-year-old Perry Brass hitchhiked from his native Savannah to San Francisco, beginning an adventures he called, "like Mark Twain with drag queens." Often dead broke, he met an underground of homeless gay kids like himself, boy hustlers and the men who frequented them, as well as tormented married men, female impersonators, and ruthless cops. A Real Life is a keyhole into being an openly gay teen, on his own, in the turbulent period before Stonewall, and Gay Liberation. Brass also gives an account of his abusive lesbian mother, the many jobs and "hustles" he encountered to stay alive, the beautiful teenage hustler he fell hopelessly in love with, and the older men who taught him how to live in the shadowy gay world. Perry Brass is the author of nineteen books of fiction and non-fiction, ranging from poetry to "pornography," and his famous "how to" books, like How to Survive Your Own Gay Life and The Manly Art of Seduction. An artist, poet, journalist, and long-time activist, here he has pulled back the mask covering so much of lgbtq history and culture. He writes about the grit, courage, and ultimately love so many gay kids showed, after leaving families and communities that rejected them. He talks about his friendships and crushes, as well as his need to find in a time that told so many lies about kids like himself, his own "real life."

A Real Life, “Like Mark Twain with Drag Queens”: A Memoir “Like Mark Twain with Drag Queens”

Parenting & Relationships

Belhue Press

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Survival Kit: A Complete Guidance Manual for Gay Men

Sex-Charge

Works and Other "Smoky George" Stories

Out There: Stories of Private Desires, Horror and the Afterlife

Albert: Or the Book of Man

Works and Other "Smoky George" Stories

How to Survive Your Own Gay Life: An Adult Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships

A Real Life, “Like Mark Twain with Drag Queens”: A Memoir “Like Mark Twain with Drag Queens”