My diva : 65 gay men on the women who inspire them / edited by Michael Montlack.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Montlack, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Identity.

Gay men.

Gay men--Relations with heterosexual women.

Gay men--Biography.

Gay men--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : Terrace Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, and Diana Ross to Queen Elizabeth I, Julia Child, and Princess Leia, these divas have been sister, alter ego, fairy godmother, or model for survival to gay men and the closeted boys they once were. And anyone--straight or gay, young or old, male or female--who ever needed a muse, or found one, will see their own longing mirrored here as well.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Sappho (630 BC)

Queen Elizabeth I (1533)

Virginia Woolf (1882)

Margaret Dumont (1882)

Bessie Smith (1892)

Claude Cahun (1894)

Gracie Allen (1895)

Lotte Lenya (1898)

Gloria Swanson (1899)

Marlene Dietrich (1901)

Joan Crawford (1905) versus Bette Davis (1908)

Lucille Ball (1911)

Mahalia Jackson (1911)

Julia Child (1912)

Billie Holiday (1915)

Edith Piaf (1915)

Evita Perón (1919)

Grace Paley (1922)

Ava Gardner (1922)

Aurora de Albornoz (1926)

Joan Sutherland (1926)

Eartha Kitt (1927)

Betty Berzon (1928)

Jeanne Moreau (1928)

Jennifer Paterson ["Two Fat Ladies"] (1928)

Audrey Hepburn (1929)

Ms. Kiki Durane (Depression Era)

Elizabeth Taylor (1932)

Anna Moffo (1932)

Nina Simone (1933)

Julie Andrews (1935)

Tina Turner (1939)

Karen Black (1939)

Raquel Welch (1940)

Julie Christie (1941)

Helen Reddy (1941)

Wonder Woman (1941)

Diana Ross (1944)

Rocío Dúrcal (1944)

Bette Midler (1945)

Jessye Norman (1945)

Liza Minnelli (1946)

Cher (1946)

Laura Nyro (1947)

Stevie Nicks (1948)

Jessica Lange (1949)

Patti LuPone (1949)

Wendy Waldman (1950)

Cyndi Lauper (1953)

Rickie Lee Jones (1954)

Annie Lennox (1954)

Siouxsie Sioux (1957)

Auntie Mame (1958)

Kate Bush (1958)

Jamie Lee Curtis (1958)

Sade (1959)

Taylor Dayne (1962)

Endora ["Bewitched"] (1964)

Björk (1965)

Kristin Hersh (1966)

Céline Dion (1968)

Parker Posey (1968)

Margaret Cho (1968)

Mary J. Blige (1971)

Princess Leia (1977)

Contributors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780299231231

0299231232

OCLC:

489295327