The Tomcat Chronicles: Erotic Adventures of a Gay Liberation Pioneer

ISBN-13: 9781560234883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 242 str.

Jack Nichols

Opis

Before the Stonewall rebellion, Gay Lib, or AIDS there was young, lusty Jack Nichols The Tomcat Chronicles tells of the youthful Nichols' steamy sexual exploits in those years before he achieved fame as a cultural icon. Jack Nichols is now known as a founding-father of the gay and lesbian liberation movement, editor of GAY (the first gay weekly newspaper), co-founder of the Mattachine Societies of Washington, D.C. and Florida, and a warrior who broke ground for gay equality. This eye-opening tale relates his adventures as a young gay stud with a devil-may-care attitude and a penchant for sex and travel. "Let me say that when Jack zeroed in on somebody, it was akin to watching a great white shark and a baby seal. The guy didn't stand a chance. If he had any insecurities about his sexual desires, Jack helped bring those to an immediate end-one that was always spelled out in direct action. Jack was likely to have sex anywhere where there was cover. Bushes, gas station rest rooms, libraries, the YMCA, the bus station, the beaches, the back seat of my car. He didn't believe he ought to have sex while he was driving, but I can assure you, even that happened." -Steve These words sum up the extraordinary years before Jack Nichols went on to become one of the most famous advocates for both gay and male liberation. The Tomcat Chronicles is Jack's candid story of his early twenties when he was filled with romance, ardor, and wanderlust. It was a time when one could live as a gypsy-roaming the countryside searching for new thrills and making love with abandonment. Yet there was still a sense of repression in the early sixties that forced gay men to be "macho," and keep men from readily expressing their feelings. In days gone by I'd been involved in more than my share of Dionysian ferment, but these previous experiences had, in no way, prepared me for the odd shock I felt as I climbed atop a dune and looked into a sand pit where six handso

Spis treści

Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, Mountain Lovin’ Boy, Chapters 1 to Chapter 9, About the Author.

O autorze

Jack Nichols is a pioneer of the American gay and lesbian civil rights movement whose biography appears in Dr. Vern Bullough’s new history, Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context (Haworth) among “movers and shakers on the national scene.”