Gay soul : interviews and photographs by Mark Thompson; finding the heart of gay spirit and nature with sixteen writers, healers, teachers, and visionaries

Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-266).. Responsibility interviews and photographs by Mark Thompson.

James Broughton - Gaiety of soul. Paul Monette - On becoming. Richard A. Isay - Rising to love. Andrew Harvey - Rebirth through the wound. Andrew Ramer - Tribal wisdom. Harry Hay - Reinventing ourselves. Will Roscoe - The geography of gender. Clyde Hall - Great spirit. James M. Saslow - Crossing the categories. Ram Dass - A life beyond labels. Joseph Kramer - Body and soul. Guy Baldwin - Reclaiming the exiled self. Ed Steinbrecher - Sex with God. Robert H. Hopcke - The union of sames. Malcolm Boyd - Survival with grace. Mitch Walker - Coming out inside

'Recorded here are the innermost thoughts and emotions of a unique community of men who are engaged in acts of discovery, self-invention, and the responsibilities of catastrophic loss. As each of these men illustrates with anecdotes from his own childhood, many gay men feel anessential difference from other boys at a very early age. That sense of otherness was the beginning of a lifelong quest that led to roles as teachers, writers, healers, and visionaries. In almost every case, the experiencde of being gay has forged a closer union with the divine within. This is the meaning of gay soul.'

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