Drawing on stories published in both mainstream and alternative magazines and excerpts from published novels, this breakthrough anthology presents the best of recent gay fiction - and some of the most remarkable writing in America today. By turns experimental, provocative, poignant and nostalgic, these stories - which bring to life porn actors and political dissidents, transsexuals and teenage girls, men dying of AIDS and boys coming of age, drag queens and straight parents, call boys and closet cases - are unified not only by their excellence, but by the risks they take. Together they form a community, a rich confederacy of voices that reflects the diversity of gay life today.
