Title: Girls who like boys who like boys : true tales of love, lust, and friendship between straight women and gay men /
Authors: De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-; Dolby, Tom.
Publisher: Dutton,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Gay men Relations with heterosexual women Anecdotes.; Friendship Anecdotes.
Abstract: From the Publisher: A celebration of the most important relationship in a straight girl's life her gay best friend. Thanks to iconic duos such as Sex and the City's Carrie and Stanford and the title characters of Will & Grace, the love affair between straight women and gay men has moved into the mainstream. Never before, though, has a book looked at these friendships in the real world. The editors, themselves best friends, have put together this collection of hilarious and poignant never-before-published essays that explore this unique relationship. In addition to stories about single girls and gay guys bonding over shopping sprees and brunch, these stories chronicle love and lust, infatuation and heartbreak, growing up and coming out, and family and children. Straight women and gay men alike will relate to these tales from a diverse array of contributors, ranging from literary novelists to Emmy Award winners, single girls about town to mothers of four, downtown performance artists to Hollywood scenesters. This definitive anthology, the first of its kind, proves that more durable than diamonds; straight women and gay men are each other's true best friends. A share of the proceeds from this book will benefit The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping gay teens.
Contents: Foreword / Armistead Maupin -- Introduction / Melissa de la Cruz and Tom Dolby -- Shop girls / Karen Robinovitz -- Fag hags : the laughter, the tears, the Marabou / Simon Doonan -- The collectors / K.M. Soehnlein -- My fairy godfathers / Cecil Castellucci -- That unsettling feeling / Mike Albo -- A Harvard (fag) hag-iography / Alexandra Jacobs -- My best girlfriend / James Lecesne -- My dinners with Tom / Gigi Levangie Grazer -- Man's best friend / David Ebershoff -- Marriage material / Wendy Mass -- Everything I always wanted to know about sex (and life) I learned from gay men / Stacey Ballis -- Love in other lifetimes / Anna David -- Future perfect / Tom Dolby -- A Manhattan love story / Melissa de la Cruz -- Super couple / Sarah Kate Levy -- Get this / Cindy Chupack -- The good girls / David Levithan -- Welcome to my dollhouse / Michael Musto -- Donny and Marie don't get married / Brian Sloan --Life before gays / Elizabeth Spiers -- The long trip home / Zakiyyah Alexander - - Lay it all down / Edwin John Wintle -- Shutterspeed / Bennett Madison -- In praise of women / Andrew Solomon -- Family albums / Philip Himberg -- Like father, like daughter / Abigail Garner -- Sitting in the dark with my mother / Zach Udko -- Darling, I like you that way / Ayelet Waldman.