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Telling one's own story has always been central to American gay culture. Yet until now there has been no extensive history of gay American autobiography. This volume provides the first comprehensive study of this crucial genre in all its complexity and diversity. Its lively and insightful analyses of a wealth of gay American autobiographical texts attend both to their historical significance and to the qualities that make them worth reading. Covering works produced over the past 200 years, the book vividly conveys how the identities of same-sex-attracted men have shifted over time and intersected with class, race, ethnicity, and occupation. Taken together, the essays in this volume demonstrate how gay life writing has contributed invaluably to the historical struggles against the subordination and persecution of same-sex sexuality and to its establishment as a legitimate form of self-expression.
Contents
List of contributors; Introduction: identity, genre, modernity Guy Davidson; Part I. Histories: 1. Democracy in anti-autobiography: Whitman's 'Song of Myself' Rafael Walker; 2. Medical autobiography Adam Sonstegard; 3. Gay autobiography in the interwar years, or what kind of theory of biography does queer theory need? Benjamin Kahan; 4. Self-told stories of 'Comrades of Sorts': queer males and World War II John Ibson; 5. We are everywhere: coming out, autobiography and gay liberation Ben Nichols; 6. Gay literary autobiography and the 1970s Jack Parlett; 7. Repeating one's self: gay life writing and writing gay life in Edmund White's States of Desire, My Lives, and 'Chaos' Nicholas F. Radel; 8. AIDS and autobiography Monica B. Pearl; 9. 'Post-Gay' memoir and autobiography Octavio R. González; Part II. Identities: 10. Gay American travel writing Justin D. Edwards and Churnjeet Mahn; 11. Black gay autobiography GerShun Avilez; 12. Borderline testimonio: 'Gay Latino Autobiography', beyond gender, beyond genre Ricardo L. Ortiz; 13. Gay Asian American Autobiography Kathy Chow; 14. On transgender autobiography R.L. Goldberg; 15. Drag and genderqueer life writing Aaron J. Stone; Part III. Professions: 16. In the sex trade Steven Ruszczycky; 17. Gay celebrity autobiography Sharon Becker; 18. Sport as both a first and last hurdle for inclusion: the evolution of gay athlete autobiographies in America Andrew C. Billings, Leigh Moscowitz and Joshua R. Jackson; 19. Documenters, dissidents, and double lives: gay male life-writing in the American forces Yorick Smaal; 20. Gay religious autobiography Raymond-Jean Frontain.
