Girls who like boys who like boys
Subtitle: true tales of love, lust, and friendship between straight women and gay men
By: edited by Melissa de la Cruz & Tom Dolby.
Contributors: De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-; Dolby, Tom.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780525950172
Subjects: Gay men -- Relations with heterosexual women -- Anecdotes; Friendship -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Love in other lifetimes / Anna David; title: Fag hags : the laughter, the tears, the Maribou / Simon Doonan; title: Life before gays / Elizabeth Spiers; title: The collectors / K.M. Soehnlein; title: Get this / Cindy Chupack; title: Sitting in the dark with my mother / Zach Udko; title: Like father, like daughter / Abigail Garner; title: The good girls / David Levithan; title: My fairy godfathers / Cecil Castellucci; title: Donnie and Marie don't get married / Brian Sloan; title: A Harvard (fag) hag-iography / Alexandra Jacobs; title: My best girlfriend / James Lecesne; title: Shop girls / Karen Robinovitz; title: Lay it all down / Edwin John Wintle; title: The long trip home / Zakiyyah Alexander; title: Shutterspeed / Bennett Madison; title: Super couple / Sarah Kate Levy; title: Man's best friend / David Ebershoff; title: Marriage material / Wendy Mass; title: Welcome to my dollhouse / Michael Musto; title: Everything I always wanted to know about sex (and life) I learned from gay men / Stacey Ballis; title: Side by side (by side) / Philip Himberg; title: The gang's all here / Melissa de la Cruz; title: Future perfect / Tom Dolby; title: My dinners with Tom / Gigi Levangie Grazer; title: In praise of women / Andrew Solomon; title: That unsettling feeling / Mike Albo; title: Darling, I like you that way / Ayelet Waldman.