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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index
Life writing about gay desire -- Born in the Thirties : coming of age in the Fifties -- Born in the Forties: finding a voice -- Born in the Fifties: the Gay revolution -- Born in the Sixties: living easier with homosexuality -- Born in the Seventies and Eighties: postmodern memoirs
Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, Writing Desire examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar and psychoanalyst Bertram J. Cohler has carefully selected a diverse group of ten men, including historians, activists, journalists, poets, performance artists, and bloggers, whose life writing evokes the evolution of gay life in twentieth-century America
