num_pages: 224
description: An insider’s account of gay high society in pre-Stonewall New York City—now back in printYoung, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship because of his sexual orientation, he soon became an object of desire in a gay underground scene frequented by, among many others, Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstein, and Marlene Dietrich. In this unusually vivid and sensitive account, Helms describes the business of being a sex object and its psychological and physical toll.
language: English
title: Young Man From The Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall
titlecomplete: Young Man From The Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall
genres: History, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, LGBT, Gay, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 98
places: New York City, New York, New York (State)
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press