A Gay and Gray Anthology

edited by Cookie Crumbles
Randy Gresham, and Marc Frazier

Two Essays by Jack Fritscher

“Autobiography of a Good Catholic Chicago Boy:
How Black Civil Rights Ignited the Stonewall Rebellion and
Made Me a Gay Writer“

“Blown with the Wind“

A Gay and Gray Anthology
Edited by Cookie Crumbles, Randy Gresham, and Marc Frazier
New Town Writers 2011

Table of Contents:

POETRY

• “In a Cocoon Out of Sync” – Frank Holland
• “Ordinary Sex” – Ellen Bass
• “Rascals” – Len Tews
  
• “Jazz Trio” – Whitney Scott
  
• “After the Party” – Adrian Robert Ford
  
• “The Romance of Middle Age” – Mary Meriam
  
• “La Belle Époque” – Randy Gersham
  
• “Moses Is Told” – Robert Klein Engler
  
• “Freight Train—Summer, 1974” – Gene Naden
  
• “Paying it Backwards” – Lawrence Bommer
  
• “Five Spice Chicken” – Jim Stewart
  
• “Gay at 56” – Kenneth Pobo
  
• “Late Middle Age” – Barry Frauman
  
• “For Love of Sons and Scripture” – Len Tews
  
• “Suffrage” – Shelly Thrasher
  
• “Fulfillment” – Barry Frauman
  
• “Wu Tsao’s Seculsion” – Mary Meriam
  
• “When I Die” – Len Tews
  
• “The Old Lecher” – Jeff Mann
• “Fifty Degrees” – Gregg Shapiro
  

FICTION

• “Stewart Livingston Hall” – Geer Austin
  
• “The Bacchantes: An Excerpt” – Shelly Thrasher
  
• “Blue Dasher” – Henri/etta Bensussen
  
• “Human Nature” – Sam Sommer
  

MEMOIR

• “Autobiography of a Good Catholic Chicago Boy” – Jack Fritscher
• “Naked Wine Thief” – Jim Stewart
• “Blown with the Wind” – Jack Fritscher
  
• “Birth of the Revolution” – Edward M. Cohen
  
• “Heart Circle” – Bruce Kamsler
  
• “Now What—1968” – Randy Gerham
  
• “Identity” – John Land
  
• “Wrinkles in the Time of Cholera” – Edisol Wayne Dotson

PERFORMANCE

• “My Lunch with Sophia Loren” – Laurn Crux