Young Man From The Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall

by Alan Helms

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816642687
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	04/22/2003
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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