Male Fantasies/Gay Realities. Interviews with Ten Men
New York: SeaHorse Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Octavo, publisher’s stiff photo-illustrated paper wraps.
First edition anthology of interviews conducted by George Stambolian, published by gay lit movement mainstay Felice Picano’s SeaHorse Press. A French professor and editor central to the early gay literary movement, Stambolian is best known for his Men On Men anthologies, collections of gay male fiction published in the 1980s and early 90s featuring work by Picano, Holleran, and Edmund White, among other emerging gay writers. Stambolian played a pivotal role in legitimizing gay literature as a recognized literary field, and was a mentor to many of the writers of the generation that followed. Conducted in the late 70s and early 80s, just before and at the onset of the AIDS crisis, the conversations collected here feature ten men speaking to Stambolian about desire, intimacy, and the inevitable gap between fantasy and lived experience. Issued Simultaneously in hardcover and paperback, as here. Light creasing and edgewear to wraps. Very good. Item #12743
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