| Title: |
I Have More Fun with You than Anybody |
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| Author: |
Clarke, Lige and Jack Nichols |
| Published by: |
St. Martin's, 1972 |
| ISBN: |
[hardcover, 152 pages] |
Elijah Clarke and John Nichols (more familiarly
known as Lige and Jack) live gaily in New York, in every sense of the word.
Editors of the popular homosexual publication Gay, they explode
the myth of the tortured homosexual by their own examples: telling of their
trips to gay meccas all over North America, describing gay night-life in
the big city (including a drag ball where they are the judges), recalling
such lighthearted adventures as a softball game between the staff of Screw
(for which they write a column) and the cast of Hair.
There is a serious side to these memoirs, as Jack and
Lige recall their family backgrounds, how they met, Lige's Army experiences
in the pentagon and Jack's with the Washington Mattachine Society. They
have perceptive comments to make about Gay Lib and politics, gay culture,
their friends (both male and female, gay and straight), and the significance
of their lives together. Jack and Lige write not so much as homosexuals,
but rather as liberated human beings, and there is much in their story
to enjoy and reflect upon regardless of sexual preference.
