| Title: |
Shirts & Skin |
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| Author: |
Tim Miller |
| Published by: |
Alyson Publications, 1997 |
| ISBN: |
1-55583-425-6 [trade paperback, 296 pages] |
When his high school gym teacher divided
the class into two teams, Shirts and Skins, for a game of touch football,
Tim Miller knew "I was always going to be on the team where the boys
took their clothes off and got close to each other." In this revealing,
humorous, frequently sexy memoir, Miller, one of the famed NEA Four, looks
at some of the major events that have shaped his life: the growth of his
first pubic hair, becoming the love slave of a John Travolta look-alike,
shopping for a dog, deciding whether to take the HIV antibody test, and
searching for the perfect soul mate.
Tim Miller has been writing solo theater works since 1980.
He made national headlines after successfully suing the National Endowment
for the Arts for withdrawing a grant under political pressure and is now
the artistic director of Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California.
