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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jones, William E., 1962- author.     Subjects     McDonald, Boyd, 1925-1993.     Straight to hell.     Gay men -- Sexual behavior.     Gay men -- Underground literature.     Underground literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.     Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jones, William E., 1962- author.       by title:      True homosexual expe...         MARC Display

True homosexual experiences : Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell / William E. Jones. by Jones, William E., 1962- author. Los Angeles, CA : We Heard You Like Books, 2016. Subjects McDonald, Boyd, 1925-1993.   Straight to hell.   Gay men -- Sexual behavior.   Gay men -- Underground literature.   Underground literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.   Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography. ISBN:  9780996421812 : 0996421815 : Description:  220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First Edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  Boyd McDonald (1925-1993) had the makings of a successful career in the 1950s--an education at Harvard, jobs at Time/Life and IBM--but things didn't turn out as planned. After 20 years of resentful conformity and worsening alcoholism, McDonald dried out, pawned all of his suits, and went on welfare. It was then that his life truly began. From a tiny room in a New York SRO hotel, McDonald published Straight to Hell, a series of chapbooks collecting readers' "true homosexual experiences." Following the example of Alfred Kinsey, McDonald obsessively pursued the truth about sex between men just as gay liberation began to tame America's sexual outlaws for the sake of legal recognition. Admired by such figures as Gore Vidal and William S. Burroughs, Straight to Hell combined a vigorous contempt for authority with a keen literary style, and was the precursor of queer 'zines decades later. William E. Jones conducted in-depth interviews with many people from McDonald's life, including friends, colleagues, and most unexpectedly, family members who revealed that he was a loving uncle who doted on his nieces and great-nieces. A complex portrait drawn from a wealth of previously unpublished material, True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell is the first biography devoted to a key figure of the American underground.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.7662 Jo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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