STONEWALL
Stories of Gay Liberation
Stonewall 50th Anniversary 1969-2019
Guided by gaydar in this new collection, Jack Fritscher rolls out ten excellently crafted tales scanning “the curvature of the gay Earth” from the 1906 earthquake in “Meet Me in San Francisco” through the 1969 Stonewall Riot up to gay marriage in “Mrs. Dalloway Went That-A-Way.” The stories connect LGBT folk on the Gay Axis from a Greenwich Village bar to a Midwest movie palace, and from an Alaska cruise ship to San Francisco’s Castro Street surging with gay-immigrant refugees from the American culture wars. “Chasing Danny Boy” was published initially with Neil Jordan, director of The Crying Game. “Stonewall” is one of the great short stories of gay history.
“‘Stonewall’ is pitch-perfect.” — Thomas Long, editor, Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly, Associate Professor-in-Residence, University of Connectitut
“Hilarious, exquiste, empowering stories about how fabulour we are.” — Mark Thompson, former Senior Editor of The Advocate, author, Gay Spirit
“A sterling collection…perfectly captures out bitchy bravura.” — Richard Labonté, A Different Light, www.BooksToWatchOutFor.com
“Jack Fritscher is a prolific writer who since the late 1960s has helped document the gay world and changes it has undergone.” — Willie Walker, founder GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco