'The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories' by David Levitt & Mark Mitchell
This is an anthology of stories that, in the words of its co-editor David Leavitt, "illuminate the experience of love between men, explore the nature of homosexual identity, or investigate the kinds of relationships gay men have with each other, with their friends, and with their families.
Contents:
A poem of friendship / D. H. Lawrence -- Arthur Snatchfold / E. M. Forster -- Sally Bowles / C. Isherwood -- Me and the girls / N. Coward -- My father and myself [excerpt] / J. R. Ackerley -- May we borrow your husband? / G. Greene -- Hands / S. Anderson -- The teacher of American business English / J. Kirkup -- Falconer [excerpt] / J. Cheever -- The folded leaf [excerpt] / W. Maxwell -- Servants with torches / D. Windham -- Jimmy / D. Hogan -- Torridge / W. Trevor -- Some of these days / J. Purdy -- A glass of blessings [excerpt] / B. Pym -- Reprise / E. White -- Dramas / E. O'Brien -- Mrs. Tefillin' / L. Kramer -- Spunk / P. Bailey -- The Times as it knows us / A. Barnett -- The princess from Africa / D. Plante -- Adult art / A. Gurganus -- The Cinderella waltz / A. Beattie -- Good with words / S. Greco -- Nothing to ask for / D. McFarland -- Ignorant armies / M. Cunningham -- Run, mourner, run / R. Kenan -- Six fables / B. Cooper -- Perrin and the fallen angel / P. Wells -- My mother's clothes: the school of beauty and shame / R. McCann -- A place I've never been / D. Leavitt -- Notes towards a performance of Jean Racine's tragedy Athalie / N. Bartlett -- Buried treasure / G. Glickman -- Self-portrait in twenty-three rounds / D. Wojnarowicz -- Jump or dive / P. Cameron -- Gentlemen can wash their hands in the gents' / C. Coe -- The dancing lesson / G. Albarelli -- A real doll ; The whiz kids / A. M. Homes.
