Synopses & Reviews
What if you stumbled across someone's diary and there was no one around? For that moment you would have entree into a life and experiences beyond your own. You would have access to secrets, confessions, and unadulterated truth. Would you read it? Taking this question beyond the hypothetical and neatly eliminating any moral quandaries is After Words, any moral quandaries is After Words, which opens the pages and invites you in. With settings from 1960s New York to early '90s Johannesburg and Paris to yesterday in San Francisco, these entries from the real diaries of gay men give unlimited access to the shivering sensations of one-night stands, rebound romances, and infidelity. Unabashedly explicit and surging with the immediacy of the moment, these stories are also often startlingly beautiful and filled with insight into the sociopolitical issues surrounding gay sexuality through the past four decades.
Synopsis
What if you stumbled across someone's diary and there was no one around? Would you read it? Taking this question beyond the hypothetical and neatly eliminating any moral quandaries we open the pages and invite you in. Unabashedly explicit and surging with the immediacy of the moment, these stories of one night stands, rebound romances, and infidelity are often startlingly beautiful and filled with insight.
Kevin Bentleyis the author of Sailor: Vintage Photos of an American Icon.He is currently Editor-In-Chief at Council Oak Books in San Francisco.