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Longtime companions : autobiographies of gay male fidelity /

Through a treasury of autobiographical essays, Longtime Companions documents how committed gay male unions can be as enduring, nurturing, and diverse as heterosexual marriages and proves that loving commitments and life-sharing are not exclusive to heterosexual unions. A celebration of gay diversity...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lees, Alfred W. (Editor), Nelson, Ronald, 1928- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Haworth Press, [1999]
Series:Haworth gay & lesbian studies.
Subjects:
Gay couples > United States > Biography.
Gay men > United States > Biography.
Couples homosexuels masculins > États-Unis > Biographies.
Gay couples
United States
Gay couples.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • We're Not Lost, We're Here / Philip Littell
  • Foreword / Ronald L. Donaghe
  • Casting for Couples: The Ones That Got Away
  • Enter: Key West!
  • Come to the Cabaret
  • Then, a Sour Note (with Chorus)
  • The Monogamy Issue
  • Just One Thing More
  • Marry Us / Philip Littell
  • The Joint Accounts
  • The Ballad of Eddie and Scott / Scott Samuelson, Edward Dudek
  • Park Bench to Forever / Roy Strickland, William Wynkoop
  • Surviving the Cure / Roy
  • Corroborative Testimony / William
  • Loss of Sharing: The Bereavement Continues / Martin Last
  • The Poems
  • Your Presence in Absentia
  • Arriving at Some End
  • Final Acts
  • And so to Endure
  • Married--with Children / Fred Knoerzer, John Strong
  • Okinawa Honeymoon / Stan Isaacs, Bruce Brewster
  • Across Boundaries / Tracy C. Perreault, Grover L. Harrell
  • Growing Up Apart
  • Getting Together
  • A Walk on the Wild Side
  • The Career-Path Years
  • The Moves
  • The Queen City
  • Lives Long Entwined: Comments (at Forty-Seven Years) on a Committed Relationship / Alfred Lees, Ron Nelson
  • Life Doesn't Begin at Forty (but It Starts Getting Better)
  • The Stanford Start
  • Careers and Finances
  • Cultural Pursuits in Tandem
  • How Many Corners on a Globe?
  • Friends and Social Life
  • Problems? Well, Al's Had Only One (but It's Been a Pip!)
  • The Retirement Project
  • Coda
  • Update
  • Fraternity Brothers / Carle Elkins, Patrick Ellis
  • A Long Road for Soul Mates / Walter van Nus, David Cassidy
  • The Rise from Rascals / Al Griffen-O'Connell, Lew Griffen-O'Connell.