The Golden Boy (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)
by James Melson
Category: Biography & Autobiography

The place is New York City. The time is the decade before the plague of AIDS. Thousands of gay men were living a free-wheeling lifestyle of club hopping, score hunting, sex without fear, and upward mobility. To none did The Big Apple offer greater rewards than to those young men who had the envied male model look. Author James Melson belonged to this exclusive clique: he was tall, blond, muscular, and very straight-looking. He was a model at 19, and by 25, was a successful Wall Street banker. His good looks offered him immediate entry into exclusive clubs and onto the sexual fast track with actors, male models, and other members of the Clique. In The Golden Boy, the author brings you behind the scenes into the lifestyle of the handsome Cliqueproviding vivid details of the vigorous and entertaining excitement of the times. He exposesfor one of the few times in printthe lesser-known attitudes of the Clique and their disdain for ugly faggots, their obsession with strictly the chic and glamorous, and the fast lane life of partying and sex. For 200 pages, the reader is brought back to the era that for many older readers is just a memory, and for younger readers a time they never knewwhen to be a Golden Boy was to be a prince, and sex was only fun and games.