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Contents:

• THE PENGU BOOK OF GAY SHORT STORI
• ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
• WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

THE PENGU BOOK OF GAY SHORT STORI

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GenrLGBTFictnShort StoriGayQueerAnthologiHistoril Fictn 656 pag, PaperbackFirst published January 14, 1994About the thorLeavt is a graduate of Yale Universy and a profsor at the Universy of Florida, where he is the -director of the creative wrg program. Leavt, who is openly gay, has equently explored gay issu his work. The word "gay" as we know formerly meant happy, pleasg, optimistic, fun-encsted, joy-bedbed, that sort of thg, as the very first le of "Island of Dreams" by The Sprgfields (1963):"I wanred the streets and the gay crowd plac"Then the early to mid 1960s the new meang bubbled up om the homosexual mi-mon, maybe as a replacement for "queer" which really did need replacg.

‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY

But now my dghter Geia (aged 13) tells me that one very mon phrase ed at school is "that's really gay" or "that's so gay" - and the tend meang is nothg to do wh homosexualy, bee now jt means "that's really bbish" or "that's so feeble".

I daray the latt meang has grown out of the well-attted strint homophobia of certa typ of workg-class Brish boys, but now s e has floated ee of s orig, as ed the send meang did of s own - the stori this volume, whilst rarely gay (first meang) are very fately not gay (third meang).

WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

But they are gay (send meang). *********Even 1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan a song about beg left at the altar was sggTo thk that only yterdayI was cheerful, bright and gay(Alone Aga (Naturally))but he was a b of a throwback.