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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
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Content: "This book is a lighthearted and sensitive appreciation of life by two lovers. "Elijah Clarke and John Nichols (more familiarly known as Lige and Jack) live gaily in New York, in every sense of the word. Editors of the popular homosexual publication GAY, they explode the myth of the tortured homosexual by their own examples: telling of their trips to gay meccas all over North America, describing gay night-life in the big city (including a drag ball where they are the judges), recalling such lighthearted adventures as a softball game between the staff of SCREW (for which they write a column) and the cast of HAIR. "There is a serious side to these memoirs, as Jack and Lige recall their family backgrounds, how they met, Lige's Army experiences in the Pengaton and Jack's with the Washington Mattachine Society. They have perceptive comments to make about Gay Lib and politics, gay culture, their friends (both male and female, gay and straight), and the significance of their lives together. Jack and Lige write not so much as homosexuals, but rather as liberated human beings, and there is much in their story to enjoy and reflect upon regardless of sexual preference." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: contemporary: from the jacket: "Lige Clarke and Jack Nichols are probably best known as editors of GAY and columnists for SCREW, but the scope of their interests is wide. Jack was co-founder of the Mattachine Society of Washington DC. He and Lige met in Washington while Lige, a Kentucky native, was in the Army and assigned to the Pentagon. Together they organized the first gay picket line at the White House (in 1965). Subsequently moving to New York, they began writing and were jointly cited as Newspapermen of the Year by the New York Mattachine Society. Besides their current writing activities they give speeches and have appeared on numerous radio and TV talk shows. They live in New York's East Village." (click here for photograph) currently (April 2011) on internet Jack Nichols (16 March 1938 — 2 May 2005) was an American gay rights activist; continued on Wikipedia Elijah Hadyn "Lige" Clarke (22 February 1942 — 10 February 1975) was an American LGBT activist and journalist. Wikipedia Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"We met in The Hideaway, a rathskeller directly across the street from FBI Headquarters in the nation's capital, a popular place that attracted men - and men only - from miles around. Servicemen disguised in levis. College boys in chinos, looking for Mr Wonderful. Government clerks, horny, on the make. There were candles on checkered tablecloths. A jukebox blaring. Lige was a soldier, fresh from the mountains of Kentucky, working in the Pentagon for Uncle Sam with security clearances up the yingyang. Trusted, and rightly so. Jack was a civilian, an idealist with a crewcut. A city boy, too intellectual, but open to change." opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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