num_pages: 304
description: In this angry, eloquent outcry against the oppression of homosexuals, the author of the classic City of Night gives "an explosive non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground" of Los Angeles in the 1970s--the "battlefield" of the sexual outlaw. Using the language and techniqus of the film, Rechy deftly intercuts the despairing, joyful, and defiant confessions of a male hustler with the "chorus" of his own subversive reflections on sexual identity and sexual politics, and with stark documentary reports our society directs against homosexuals--"the only minority against whose existence there are laws."
language: English
title: The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary
titlecomplete: The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary (Rechy, John)
genres: LGBT, Gay, Queer, Sex Work, Classics, Nonfiction, Gay Fiction, Memoir, Queer Lit
ratings_count: 239
publisher: Grove Press