States of Desire Revisited : travels in Gay America / Edmund White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Edmund, 1940-2025, author.

Series:

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--United States.

Gay men.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin ; London, England : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

States of Desire Revisited looks back from the twenty-first century at a pivotal moment in the late 1970s: Gay Liberation was a new and flourishing movement of creative culture, political activism, and sexual freedom, just before the 1980s devastation of AIDS. Edmund White traveled America, recording impressions of gay individuals and communities that remain perceptive and captivating today. He noted politicos in D.C. working the system, in-fighting radicals in New York and San Francisco, butch guys in Houston and self-loathing but courteous gentlemen in Memphis, the "Fifties in Deep Freeze" in Kansas City, progressive thinkers with conservative style in Minneapolis and Portland, wealth and beauty in Los Angeles, and, in Santa Fe, a desert retreat for older gays and lesbians since the 1920s. White frames those past travels with a brief, bracing review of gay America since the 1970s ("now we were all supposed to settle down with a partner in the suburbs and adopt a Korean daughter"), and a reflection on how Internet culture has diminished unique gay places and scenes but brought isolated individuals into a global GLBTQ community.

Contents:

Introduction

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Portland and Seattle

Santa Fe, Salt Lake City, and Denver

Texas

The Midwest

Florida and the South

New York City

Boston and Washington, D.C.

Epilogue: Self-criticism

Afterword.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299302634

0299302636

OCLC:

885481053