Records the adventures of a male hustler as he stalks the hideouts of homosexuals in Los Angeles
John Rechy Książki





The Coming of the Night
- 244 strony
- 9 godzin czytania
A novel on the golden age of homosexuality, after it became an accepted state and before AIDS put a dampener. The action follows for one day a variety of gays in 1981 Los Angeles, including an old man envious of the freedom enjoyed by the younger generation. By the author of City of Night
The taboo-busting 1960s classic that gave voice to a hidden subculture.
In this angry, eloquent outcry against the oppression of homosexuals, the author of the classic City of Night gives "an explosive non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground" of Los Angeles in the 1970s--the "battlefield" of the sexual outlaw. Using the language and techniqus of the film, Rechy deftly intercuts the despairing, joyful, and defiant confessions of a male hustler with the "chorus" of his own subversive reflections on sexual identity and sexual politics, and with stark documentary reports our society directs against homosexuals--"the only minority against whose existence there are laws."