The Soul Beneath the Skin
Subtitle: The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Men
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: May 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312269197
Subjects: Gay studies (Gay men); Literature: Texts; Social conditions; Men's Studies - Masculinity; Social Science; Sociology; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; United States; Social life and customs; Social Science / Gay Studies; Gay Studies; Gay men; Psychology
First sentence: If you have ever had a hunch there was something special or different about gay men; if you have by turns felt you are glad to be gay, yet found yourself disappointed by the forms "gay community" takes; if you have wondered, "Is this all there is to us?"; if you have sometimes wished men like us could be different with each other; if you have craved more affection and tenderness in your gay social world, but weren't sure how to get it, this book may offer some new answers.
Description: "This book opens a radical new understanding of the lives of contemporary gay men. David Nimmons marshals evidence from hundreds of social science studies that have been conducted since Stonewall - as well as from the stories of gay men themselves - to reveal a number of unseen patterns of gay male behavior, truths about gay life many men have long felt instinctively, yet rarely named."--BOOK JACKET.