An innovative description of the urban underworld of male prostitution. Rechy portrays a nameless narrator as he travels through several US cities, meeting a collection of unforgettable characters, from drag queens and criminals to the bedridden Professor and Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with brutal candour and understanding but without sentimentality or self-pity, in a prose that is highly personal, vivid and boldly descriptive. Rechy has never equalled in later novels the dynamism and freshness of City of Night. In that groundbreaking book he was... observing a whole new array of characters: drag queens, the still-beautiful boy living dangerously beyond his sell-by date, the guilt-ridden married men eaten up by desire and remorse, the vice cops and fag hags they re all there, many of them for the first time in American literature... this classic American novel. --Edmund White Absolutely true... He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. --James Baldwin An American classic, with its loner hero, its juke joints and neon signs, its restless shifting from city to city, bed to bed; a hybrid of On the Road and Catcher in the Rye.

City of Night (Independent Voices) (Independent Voices)

Literature & Fiction

John Rechy

Literary

Souvenir Press

The Fourth Angel

Star

Numbers takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the limbo of hidden sex between men to chronicle a way of life barely imagined to those outside its boundaries. Its hero, Johnny Rio , is an angel of dark sex who returns to the scene of his former triumphs in Los Angeles to test himself anew in the arena of male love.

Numbers (Grove Press Modern Dramatists)

LGBTQ+ Books

GROVE PRESS

The Vampires

The sexual outlaw: A documentary : a non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground

Medical Books

Psychology

W.H.Allen

City of Night

Panther

A large anthology of essays on Gay history, sex, and politics, plus fiction and poetry: Eric Garber 0n 1920s Harlem, Huey Newton on Gay Liberation, John Mitzel on John Horne Burns; others. Edited by Winston Leyland.

Gay Roots: 20 Years of Gay Sunshine : An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics, and Culture

Winston Leyland

Jack Fritscher

Gay Sunshine Pr

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