By Lucy Jane Bledsoe
From the foreword via Felice Picano
"This quantity makes no try and rival these homosexual trip courses that exist already. it really is anything diverse, way more fascinating: a set of news that goal at being what Herman Melville deemed "an within narrative." that's, what being a homosexual guy in a overseas land rather sounds like, smells like, tastes like, and hurts like. The voices the following should be likened to these of neighbors sitting round a dinner desk the evening ahead of your trip who offer you insights and warnings that merely later do you find upload infinitely in your excursion."
Table of Content
Felice Picano "Foreword"
Lucy Jane Bledsoe "Preface"
Spain Brian Bouldrey "Pilgrim's Regress"
Beijing Philip Gambone "Invading Their Space"
Olympia Darieck Scott "Ride of the Centaurs"
Tangier Joe Orton "Tangier Diary"
California Rondo Mieczkowski "Bodies in Motion"
India Adam Klein "A wasteland Shade"
Israel Hanns Ebensten "First evening within the Promised Land"
Berlin and beyond Edmund White "Shopping"
Central Africa Cary Alan Johnson "Obi's Story"
Mexico City Andrew Holleran "Sleepless in Mexico"
Sacramento Michael Nava "Journey to 1971"
Tobago Achim Nowak "Jungle Fever 138"
Russia David Tuller "Broken Romance"
Barcelona Erasmo Guerra "La Placa Reial"
Indiana Michael Lowenthal "Sand Niggers and a Tallboy Bud"
Paris James Baldwin "Equal in Paris"
Capri and beyond Paul Monette "A One-Way Fare"
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There was a lot to learn about being gay. He nervously pushes the brown hair back from the clear skin of his forehead. I start to grow hard. "Definitely top stuffwith you," I add. " "I'm mostly a bottom," he smiles. " I open the truck's door, making sure the streetlight catches the outline of my cock in my jeans. I follow my dick. That's another thing I've learned. Generally I have a type of man I'm attracted to, but sometimes just the way a man laughs, the resonance of his voice, or the way light spills a shadow on his face can start me raging.
I decided it was now or never. I moved closer to the young man, reached out underwater, and fondled his dick. He squealed and splashed away, laughingly protesting. " Mike asked. "Well, he could have fooled me;' I said. The rest of the guys in the pool seemed nonplussed, even amused. Whatever breech of etiquette I'd made hardly seemed to cause much of a stir. The squealing boy resumed his seductive leering at me. It was then that I noticed that the water level in the pool was going down. "They're draining the pool for cleaning," Lu explained.
Unseasonably hot for February: earthquake weather. I should have guessed something would happen. Back in Ohio, my grandmother was always leery of holidays that celebrated the dead. She refused to travel on Memorial Day, always missing the annual family picnic by Lake Erie. Grandma grew most agitated as Halloween approached. She would start a novena days before to protect my younger brother and me on Halloween night when, defying her vigorous disapproval, we,d go out trick-or-treating. "Boys, the earth splits open and the devils reach out and grab you:, she warned us, as we squirmed.