Title: Buddies
First published: 1986
Description: **From Amazon.com:**

***The Buddies Cycle #2***

"What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character in Ethan Mordden's *Buddies*. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from *Moby-Dick* through *Of Mice and Men* to *The Sting*. And American gay life has built upon and cherished these relationships, even as it has dared-perhaps its most startling iconoclasm-to break new ground by combining romance and friendship: one's lover is one's buddy.

This book is about those relationships-mostly gay but some straight and even a few between gays and straights. Here also are fathers and brothers and stories of men in their youth, when rivalry often develops more naturally than alliance. In *Buddies* Mordden continues to map the unstoried wilderness of gay life today.
Subjects: Fiction, Gay men, Social life and customs, Homoseksuelen, Interpersonal relations, Friendship, Fiction, gay, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay
Places: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)
LC classification: PS3563.O7717 B8 1986