These
thirty-nine stories chronicle the gay experience over the course of the
last century, beginning with the unarticulated longing of two boys
swimming in D.H. Lawrence's "A Poem of Friendship" and ending with the
explicit sexual interaction of two boys in a bathtub in A.M. Homes's
"The Whiz Kids." In between there is every imaginable kind of gay story
written by every imaginable kind of writer--gay and straight, male and
female--all illuminating the common ground of the gay male experience
and its astonishing diversity. "The book is like a long enjoyable party,
at which the celebrated rub elbows with the neglected."-- Times
Literary Supplement