An uncensored road trip through gay American life in the early sixties

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, DC, and Florida, and a warrior who broke ground for gay equality. In his early twenties, however, he was dedicated to romance, ardor, and wanderlust-living the life of a gypsy and making love with abandon.


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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...