A Gay and Gray Anthology is a collection of poetry, fiction, memoir, and performance edited by Cookie Crumbles, Randy Gresham, and Marc Frazier and published by New Town Writers in 2011. Jack Fritscher contributes two essays to its memoir section: “Autobiography of a Good Catholic Chicago Boy: How Black Civil Rights Ignited the Stonewall Rebellion and Made Me a Gay Writer” and “Blown with the Wind.” The memoir section also includes “Naked Wine Thief” by Jim Stewart, whose poem “Five Spice Chicken” appears in the poetry section. Other contributors include Ellen Bass, Jeff Mann, and Gregg Shapiro.

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