Diary of a Drag Queen
The sudden break-up with his long-term partner along with the untimely death of a close friend sent cultural critic Daniel Harris--a top gay journalist whose literary and cultural criticism has been praised by Janet Malcolm, Alexander Cockburn, Dale Peck, and Gary Indiana--into a deep depression. Complicating matters was his accompanying mid-life crisis, which entailed facing up to the harsh realities--and daunting challenges--of an aging gay man finding a new partner in today's youth-worshipping gay world. Then Harris discovered for the first time dozens of men of all ages and sizes online shopping for sex partners in cyberspace. But he soon found that more than just gay men trolled gay sex sites; plenty of "straight" guys sought male sex buddies online, too, but often with one proviso: their male partners had to dress in women's clothing. Although Harris had never before done drag and had no prior interest in women's accessories, he set to work learning the ropes of cross-dressing once easy access to this pool of handsome, desirable and frequently off-limit men was made available to him. Diary of a Drag Queen is a revealing, comic, and sexually charged chronicle of hundreds of one-night stands in high heels.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0786715162
ISBN13:9780786715169
Release Date:July 2005
Publisher:Carroll & Graf Publishers
Length:199 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.6" x 8.2"
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Mid-Life Gender Crisis
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
More of a transvestite than a drag queen, the author ventures into the world of femininity in the hopes of capturing the ever elusive " All Man." Her search for cosmetics, beauty, men and truth are all too comical and disturbing at turns. With Gay Men as with Women, beauty and viability are one and the same same and the shelf life of which expires all too soon. Does one accept a certain loneliness and solitude with grace or go down fighting? Does the tyranny of beauty rule absolutely or are there utopias beyond? Even more entertaining than the notions of gender and beauty are the fluid sexuality of men who will do anything to have sex without being labeled gay. The willingness of her men to believe that they are straight and to hold onto their rigidly defined sexuality is just as revealing as the gay man who goes to any length to avoid being alone.
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