Young Man from the Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall

by Alan Helms

Paperback, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

HQ75.8.H44 A3 1995

Tags

gay, biography, nonfiction, memoir, history

Genres

Collections

Your library, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Publication

Avon Books (1997), Paperback, 256 pages

Description

Returning to print, this insiderAs view of pre-Stonewall high class homosexual lifestyles retraces the authorAs journey from his backwards Midwestern town to Manhattan in the 1950s. Reprint.

User reviews

LibraryThing member jwhenderson
I found Alan Helms' memoir of his life touching and inspiring. I could identify with some of his qualities as I imagine many gay men can - especially those who grew up in midwestern small towns in the fifties and early sixties when things had not changed much from the earlier decades described by
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Subjects

Actors New York (State) New York Biography
Gay community New York (State) New York History 20th century
Gay men New York (State) New York Biography
Helms, Alan
Male models New York (State) New York Biography

Language

English

Original publication date

1995

Physical description

256 p.; 7.9 inches

ISBN

0380729008 / 9780380729005

Local notes

OCLC = 297

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