Two gay wrers, Novelist Andrew Sean Greer and Poet Frank Bidart, have taken this year's Pulzer Priz fictn and poetry.
Contents:
- LEAVG THE GAY LIFE BEHD
- MARK LOWRY RPONSE TO GAY RUMORS AMID MARRIED QUTNS!
- ANDREW SEAN GREER, NOVELIST AND GAY MAN, WS PULZER PRIZE FOR FICTN
- ANDREW SEAN GREER, A GAY WRER SEARCH OF TRADNAL VALU: ‘TODAY, YOU’RE A BAD GAY IF YOU DON’T WATCH RUPL’S DRAG RACE’
- GAY AUTHORS ANDREW SEAN GREER AND FRANK BIDART W 2018 PULZER PRIZ FICTN AND POETRY
LEAVG THE GAY LIFE BEHD
Christopher Bollen talks to Andrew Sean Greer about his send novel "Ls Is Lost," a gay odyssey for our weird, divid age. * andrew greer gay *
When Christian mic veteran Ray Boltz released a statement sayg he was gay last fall, the announcement sent tidal wav of disbelief through the CCM world, shockg longtime listeners wh his assertn, "If this is the way God ma me, then this is the way I'm gog to live. " The news prompted hundreds of related articl, msageboard threads and fom discsns on the topic of homosexualy and the church. David, whose own history of homosexualy and spirual downward spiral h rock bottom 1997—which he lls "the worst year of my life"—shar Boltz' ndidns, but not his nvictns.
The gay feelgs beg. "I don't rell when gay feelgs started.
Attemptg to hh high school mors that he was gay, B. David don't remember hearg that homosexualy was wrong om the pulp. David rumed havg gay sex while employed as a worship lear at a lol church.
MARK LOWRY RPONSE TO GAY RUMORS AMID MARRIED QUTNS!
* andrew greer gay *
Dpe all the gay spicns that acpany him, Lowry, the self-scribed Poster Boy for Hyperactivy, has found the love of his life along wh his succsful reer journey. Gay Rumors Makg Rounds For LowryLowry has been the target of gay mors owg to his outgog personaly and attempts to keep his personal life private. However, is natural for the general public to believe so as he is the age where people like spendg time wh their fai, and the ic is yet Also:- Ashton Sanrs, Gay Character Bond Revealed Amid Succs Height & AwardsAnd this is how he beme implited the gay mors the first place.
Many people speculated that the lonely, sgle olr man might be gay.
ANDREW SEAN GREER, NOVELIST AND GAY MAN, WS PULZER PRIZE FOR FICTN
My name is David Ksler om Oakland, you published your first book some 20 years ago, society has seen a sea change s attu towards homosexualy and gay marriage. Well, we didn't say, but he's a gay character. He is a gay character, y.
Well, I tried 20 years ago to wre a book about a ntemporary gay life, and I jt uldn't do , uldn't figure out how to wre the somehow, this time, maybe — maybe 's the society that's changed.
It certaly shocks me to see so many people readg this book about a gay man travelg around the world, and they never talk about that. And, of urse, there's a 's — people e to me at every readg tears, bee the book was a sort of visn for them of a way to be happy and be gay or to stggle wh your happs and not stggle wh trma, bee beg gay isn't a trma.
ANDREW SEAN GREER, A GAY WRER SEARCH OF TRADNAL VALU: ‘TODAY, YOU’RE A BAD GAY IF YOU DON’T WATCH RUPL’S DRAG RACE’
Greer's characters may stand outsi the nventnal herd, but they're people you get to know and n't easily Francis has long been a refuge – and a place of fiance – for tormented mori, om the now gentrifyg black ghetto of the Missn to the pal of hippiedom the 1960s, Haight-Ashbury, to the rabow flags flutterg along the Castro, ially settled by gay servicemen discharged om the US army durg World War II. "It's great when you're really close bee you have an ally life, " m Greer, as ty rivers of ra trickle down the wdow pane behd is gay, while his intil tw is straight, which I jokgly suggt molish gay gene theory.
" While wrg the book, he felt his wrg reer was on the skids, that he was "strand on the rocks of middle age" Arthur Ls's gayns seems cintal to the plot shows jt how much the tim have changed.
GAY AUTHORS ANDREW SEAN GREER AND FRANK BIDART W 2018 PULZER PRIZ FICTN AND POETRY
In an Amerin televisn terview wh PBS NewsHour, a fan asked whether would have been possible for Greer to wre the book 20 years earlier, given s hero is gay. Greer was pecially termed not to follow the grand tradn of gay fictn and lumber s hero wh a tragic or wretched end. When I look around, I see lots of healthy, lovg gay relatnships and lots of joy.
"Jt five mut' walk om Patch Place is the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, which beme the epicentre for the gay rights movement the summer of 1969, when 400 patrons flood the streets for several nights to prott police raids agast the gay and drag bar. As a middle aged gay man, Ls is basilly me.