So Little Time: Essays on Gay Life - Softcover

Hippler, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890876096 ISBN 13: 9780890876091

Publisher: Celestial Arts, 1990

Synopsis

Articles from the Bay Area reporter, a San Francisco gay newspaper, discuss growing up gay, gay male relationships, drugs, AIDS, anti-gay prejudice, gay rights, and related subjects from the gay male experience

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Hippler's 50 lucid, engrossing essays on predominantly gay themes (most reprinted from his column in San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter ) are by turns hilarious, insightful, poignant--and, occasionally, just plain cheeky. Drawing on incidents from "my own singular life," Hippler ( Matlovich: The Good Soldier ) discusses subjects as diverse as drug dealers, civil disobedience, coming out as gay, obscene phone calls and middle age. He describes the International Mr. Leather Contest and offers a brief tour of "prefab minimal-gab wedding chapels." Here, too, are the sobering topics, like his account of being thrown through a plate glass window by three teenagers because he was a "faggot." AIDS's impact is reflected in an interview with two hospitalized AIDS patients, comments on the danger of confusing health issues with morality, Hippler's apprehension when scanning the obituaries: "Please, don't let me read the names of old friends today." Ultimately what emerges from these varied articles, giving the collection its coherence and mainstream appeal, is a glimpse of a complex individual preserving his identity and self-esteem in a challenging and sometimes hostile world.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Celestial Arts
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890876096
• ISBN 13: 9780890876091
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Shilts Randy
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 239