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An insider's account of gay high society in pre-Stonewall New York City--now back in print! Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms left a brutal midwestern...

An insider's account of gay high society in pre-Stonewall New York City--now back in print!

Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship because of his sexual orientation, he soon became an object of desire in a gay underground scene frequented by, among many others, Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstein, and Marlene Dietrich. In this unusually vivid and sensitive account, Helms describes the business of being a sex object and its psychological and physical toll.



Author: Alan Helms
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 04/22/2003
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.91w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780816642687

About the Author

Alan Helms is professor of literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.




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Tags: Actors - new york (state) - new york, Alan helms, Biography & autobiography, Disc:reg, Gay men - new york (state) - new york, Lgbtq+, Memoirs, Paperback, Pub200304, Social science, Sociology, Topical/lgbtq+, University of minnesota press