From the infamous pink triangles worn by gay prisoners in the death camps of the Holocaust to the fires of the Stonewall Riots; from the gilded closets of Hollywood to the assassination of Harvey Milk, AIDS, and the struggle for marriage equality: seven decades of gay history come to life through the experiences of a former Luftwaffe pilot imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen for his sexuality, his orphaned American nephew, and the family they create in San Francisco. Sweeping in scope yet intimate in focus, THE NAVIGATORS tells the story of how the lives of everyday individuals become the raw...
From the infamous pink triangles worn by gay prisoners in the death camps of the Holocaust to the fires of the Stonewall Riots; from the gilded closet...
From the author of THE NAVIGATORS comes this story of a young man's quest. Summer, 1964: sixteen-year-old first string quarterback Tristan Bentley has the perfect life. Recruiters for college athletic programs are expressing interest in his passing arm as well as his wrestling skills, the varsity cheerleading squad at his high school has designated him a priority target, and his best friend just got a Sting Ray convertible for his seventeenth birthday. But change is on the horizon. Not just change for Tristan's family and their home town, but change for the entire country. As past and present...
From the author of THE NAVIGATORS comes this story of a young man's quest. Summer, 1964: sixteen-year-old first string quarterback Tristan Bentley has...
From the author of THE NAVIGATORS and LODESTAR comes this novel of gay men discovering previously unknown possibilities and actualizing a new way of life in San Francisco during the 1970's. During little more than a decade between the Stonewall Riots and the arrival of AIDS in New York and San Francisco, gay male culture emerged from the shadows, reinventing itself for all the world to see and establishing its communities, traditions, and institutions. Riding on this unprecedented historical current, a new type of gay man came of age. These were men who were unapologetically loved other men,...
From the author of THE NAVIGATORS and LODESTAR comes this novel of gay men discovering previously unknown possibilities and actualizing a new way of l...
INTERSECTIONS: a scream rips through the morning sky. Through the gap, the future forces its way into Tuesday. Onlookers stare upward thunderstruck. In an instant, the clear distinction between real life and fiction they've always relied on has been obliterated. The scene they're extras in must be from a movie, but disturbing signs insist it's not. At first people go about their business as always, their paths determined by past experience. Before nightfall that will have become impossible as fires rage, towers fall, and the past crumbles to dust. A New York firefighter. His wife, an OR...
INTERSECTIONS: a scream rips through the morning sky. Through the gap, the future forces its way into Tuesday. Onlookers stare upward thunderstruck. I...
The great migration that brought tens of thousands of lesbians and gays to San Francisco in the Sixties and Seventies changed the face of the city, and eventually American society and politics, forever. But just as a great river consists of a multitude of single drops, that unprecedented movement accumulated one life at a time. VOYAGES, the new novel from the author of THE NAVIGATORS, LODESTAR, THE CURRENT, and INTERSECTIONS, traces the journeys of men coming to build a new community, discover more authentic and fulfilling ways of life, and ultimately alter the course of history.
The great migration that brought tens of thousands of lesbians and gays to San Francisco in the Sixties and Seventies changed the face of the city, an...