Every true pleasure : LGBTQ tales of North Carolina
Publication Information
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Physical Description
223 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
"North Carolina's finest fiction and non-fiction writers come together in Every true pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume--featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight--are stories and essays that show the full spectrum of contemporary life though an LGBTQ lens. These writers, some native to the state, others born elsewhere, but all with ties to North Carolina, show the multifaceted challenges and joys of LBGTQ life: religion and how it's wielded, young love and gay panic, surrogate pregnancies, military service, family life, finding sex and one's true gender, and discovering love"--
Contents
- Introduction / Wilton Barnhardt
- Navis / Minrose Gwin
- Gaydar / Wilton Barnhardt
- Adult Art / Allan Gurganus
- Sissy Boy / Toni Newman
- Pete and Daniel / Michael Parker
- Love the soldier / Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
- The Handoff / John Pierre Craig
- Courtship / Aaron Gwyn
- Once, My Husband / Diane Daniel
- Jonas / Belle Boggs
- Self-Portrait / Garrard Conley
- On Peripersonal space / Brian Blanchfield
- Without a word / Zelda Lockhart
- Hejira / David Sedaris
- Let me tell you about the fireworks / Eric Tran
- The lesson / Kelly Link
- Rabbit Heart / Alyssa Wong
- Favorite song / Emily Chávez
- Where your children are / Wayne Johns
- Girlfriend / Penelope Robbins
- I thought I heard the shuffle of angels' feet / Randall Kenan
- Discussion guide.