Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men

by Melissa de la Cruz (Editor), Tom Dolby (Editor), Armistead Maupin (Foreword by)

Overview

A literary celebration of one of the most important relationships in a straight girl’s life—her gay best friend

This collection of original essays goes beyond the banter to get to the essence of an intimate relationship like no other. With a foreword by Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys brings together pieces by National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon (The Noonday Demon), novelist Gigi Levangie Grazer (The Starter Wife), Barneys New York creative director Simon Doonan (Nasty), and many others from all walks of life. In addition to stories of gays and gals bonding over brunch, these essays chronicle love and lust, infatuation and heartbreak, growing up and coming out, and family and children. With genuine warmth, this definitive anthology proves that more durable than diamonds, straight women and gay men are each other’s true best friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101213759
Publisher:	Temple Publications International, Inc.
Publication date:	05/17/2007
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	370 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly internationally bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels. Her Blue Bloods series has sold over three million copies, and the Witches of East End series became an hour-long television drama on the Lifetime network.

Tom Dolby is a filmmaker and novelist. His screenwriting and directorial debut, Last Weekend, premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival and was released by IFC/Sundance Selects. Tom is the author of four novels, including the bestseller The Trouble Boy, and the critically acclaimed boarding school tale The Sixth Form. He lives in Los Angeles with his two daughters and too many dogs.

Armistead Maupin was served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. In 1976, he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and Michael Tolliver Lives. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Armistead Maupin     xi
Introduction   Melissa de la Cruz   Tom Dolby     xv
Gays and Gals
Shop Girls   Karen Robinovitz     3
Fag Hags: The Laughter, the Tears, the Marabou   Simon Doonan     11
The Collectors   K. M. Soehnlein     19
My Fairy Godfathers   Cecil Castellucci     35
That Unsettling Feeling   Mike Albo     49
Close Confidants
A Harvard (Fag) Hag-Iography   Alexandra Jacobs     59
My Best Girlfriend   James Lecesne     67
My Dinners with Tom   Gigi Levangie Grazer     75
Man's Best Friend   David Ebershoff     83
Marriage Material   Wendy Mass     99
A Fine Romance
Everything I Always Wanted to Know About Sex (and Life) I Learned from Gay Men   Stacey Ballis     111
Love in Other Lifetimes   Anna David     123
Future Perfect   Tom Dolby     131
A Manhattan Love Story   Melissa de la Cruz     143
Super Couple   Sarah Kate Levy     155
Get This   Cindy Chupack     163
Growing Up,Coming Out
The Good Girls   David Levithan     173
Welcome to My Dollhouse   Michael Musto     181
Donny and Marie Don't Get Married   Brian Sloan     185
Life Before Gays   Elizabeth Spiers     197
The Long Trip Home   Zakiyyah Alexander     203
Lay it All Down   Edwin John Wintle     211
Shutterspeed   Bennett Madison     217
Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons
In Praise of Women   Andrew Solomon     229
Family Albums   Philip Himberg     235
Like Father, Like Daughter   Abigail Garner     255
Sitting in the Dark with My Mother   Zach Udko     265
Darling, I Like You that Way   Ayelet Waldman     279
Acknowledgments     287
About the Contributors     289

Editorial Reviews

"These pages resound with two main sentiments: 'If you're lucky, really lucky, you have one friend in this life who feels like a gift' and 'Getting a gay boyfriend enriches life immeasurably.' This collection of original essays celebrates the fierce bond and special intimacy between straight women and their gay male best friends, as well as the sometimes disheartening realization that the boy you like, likes boys. Many essays soar with strong insights into love, humanity and the nature of friendship. James Lecesne writes a letter to a friend that whimsically deconstructs their 15-year friendship while revealing just how lifesaving it was. Cindy Chupack, on the verge of getting married again, embarks on a bittersweet reunion with her gay ex-husband. And Karen Robinovitz rhapsodizes on the joys of shopping with gay men and why when getting married one should, instead of bridesmaids, opt for 'bridesgays.' Contributors also include some familiar writers from the worlds of journalism, film, TV, theater and fiction, like Anna David, David Ebershoff, Michael Musto and Andrew Solomon. Though bookstores aren't lacking for lesbian and gay anthologies, this one justifies itself by tapping a less-explored subject with fresh voices and fervent first-person accounts."—Publishers Weekly

 “A charmingly skewered look at best friends.”—Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes

“In essays that run the gamut from hilarious to profound, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys shatters the stereotype of the 'fag hag' supplanting it with vivid, heart-felt portraits of the complicated, compassionate women who enrich our lives. It's a valentine to that rare kind of love, one free from the maddening trap of desire, and proof that sisterhood ain't just for girls.”—Doug Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Grey Gardens and I Am My Own Wife

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