Description
An insider's account of gay high society in pre-Stonewall New York City--now back in print!
Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship because of his sexual orientation, he soon became an object of desire in a gay underground scene frequented by, among many others, Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstein, and Marlene Dietrich. In this unusually vivid and sensitive account, Helms describes the business of being a sex object and its psychological and physical toll.
Author: Alan Helms
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 04/22/2003
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.91w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780816642687
ISBN10: 0816642680
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Social Science | General
- Biography & Autobiography | LGBTQ+
About the Author
Alan Helms is professor of literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.