Zusammenfassung
George Stambolian, Terri de la Peña, Audre Lorde, Paul Monette, Edmund White, and Jaime Manrique are just six of the writers represented in this collection of forty contemporary lesbian and gay short stories. Gathered together for the first time in one volume are writings by both lesbians and gay men who represent a multiplicity of ethnic and racial backgrounds. Irene Zahava has compiled a unique and necessary collection, selecting stories for their artistic power and for their treatment of topics that are significant in lesbian and gay life and politics today. An alternative thematic table of contents allows the reader to understand lesbian and gay life according to its most culturally and politically significant themes: childhood/growing up; coming out/finding community; families; oppression/resistance; bisexuality; relationships/friendships; AIDS; and aging/dying.

Inhalt
Credits -- Introduction -- Childhood/Growing Up -- From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name -- My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame -- Ben's Eyes -- Myths -- Buddies -- Ceremonies -- Sacred Ups of the Bronx -- Coming Out/Finding Community -- Sister Safety Pin -- Growing in Defiance -- Letter to Mama -- Shouts of Joy -- Mujeres Morenas -- Don't Explain -- Families -- Cultural Revolution -- Mothers Know -- Enrollment -- In My Father's Car -- River of Names -- Oppression/Resistance -- A Letter to Harvey Milk -- Fruitstand II: Honeydew Moon -- Country People -- Public Display -- Kissing Doesn't Kill -- Bisexuality -- Humming -- Meeting Imelda Marcos -- The Juliette Low Legacy -- Relationships/Friendships -- Is this Enough for you? -- When you Grow to Adultery -- Trespassing -- The Day Carmen Maura Kissed me -- The Dress -- Deer Out of Season -- Aids -- Despair: August 1987 -- Halfway Home -- The Angel of Death on the Provincetown Ferry -- Portland, Maine: An Essay -- Running on Empty -- A Good Man -- Aging/Dying -- D.O.M -- In the Life