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All over the map. Some writers, not so wonderful. Some writers, amazing. A good introduction to writers you haven't encountered.
Read 37 letters including from David Sedaris, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and other Latino, African, Jewish, and Asian men;Academics, Drag Queens, Activists, and Military personnel, among others;Letters, journals, oral histories, autobiographies, memoirs;David Bergman does a great job of collecting and sharing these wonderful 150 years of intimate history of emotions and personal stories.
A fun collection of literary gay america, much of the interesting stories in this book are of the stories of what it was like to be gay when it was not even a word that people knew about. Most were married or at least appeared as much as possible to be.
Bergman has collected a really good assortment of autobiographies by gay men. As a reader it is a great resource for introducing writing by gay men to a wider audience. "Gilbert Herdt and Andrew Boxer identify four cohort systems: One for those who came of age after World War I, another for those who came of age during and after World War II, yet another for those who came of age after the Stonewall Riots and the advent of gay liberation, and finally one for those who of age in the era of AIDS.
