I Love William Gay’s ‘The Long Home’

Contents:

• STEELERS WILLIAM GAY -- 1-MAN SHIRTLS DANCE PARTY (VIO)
• RNWILLIAM YANG'S PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF FOUR S OF SYDNEY'S GAY DANCE PARTI
• WILLIAM GAY
• STEELERS' WILLIAM GAY GETS PICK-SIX, RIPS OFF LEBRON JAM WH CELEBRATN DANCE
• WILLIAMGAY
• WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70; WRER TIED TO TENNSEE
• PTSBURGH CB WILLIAM GAY CELEBRAT PICK-SIX FOR A FULL 60 SENDS
• STORI OM THE ATTIC, PREVLY UNPUBLISHED WORK BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY DAWN MAJOR
• I LOVE WILLIAM GAY’S ‘THE LONG HOME’

STEELERS WILLIAM GAY -- 1-MAN SHIRTLS DANCE PARTY (VIO)

Steelers' William Gay. Steelers rnerback William Gay is takg that whole "dance like no one is watchg" thg to new levels...

Gay -- for reasons we're not sure of -- posted five different vios to the 'gram of him (que expertly) executg every hot dance move out there cludg The Whip, The Jook, and the ath-fyg Bobble Walk.

"I was astonished to be a room wh over a hundred good lookg guys, " he there were unrground queer dance parti before that time, this was the first time Yang saw people "that weren't so furtive, people were que openly gay", a social documentary photographer who's now his 70s, has had backstage accs to Sydney's queer dance parti for over four s, documentg them om their begng the 1970s (the first Mardi Gras was 1978) until the very begng, he says, dance parti were a big part of the culture of gay liberatn. People would let you do somethg like that bee this was part of the gay liberatn procs: you don't have to be ashamed anymore.

RNWILLIAM YANG'S PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF FOUR S OF SYDNEY'S GAY DANCE PARTI

A poet uld not but be gay,. William Gay was born 1865 at Bridge of Weir, Renewshire, Stland. Early on the Monday night game between the Tennsee Tans and the Ptsburgh Steelers, Zach Mettenberger was picked off by William Gay on his very first drive.

WILLIAM GAY

Gay then whipped out this celebratn dance. I’m givg Gay a C for poor executn of LeBron Jam’ signature dance bee was one knee thst too many. You’ve already done the hard work of actually srg, Gay.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWilliam Gay Di at 70; Wrer Tied to TennseeFeb. 29, 2012William Gay, a self-tght novelist om ral Tennsee who emerged om obscury his late 50s wh crilly praised books the Southern Gothic style, died last Thursday at his home, a log b Hohenwald, southwt of Nashville.

Gay’s most recent publisher, MacAdam/ son of a sharecropper who spent much of his workg life blue-llar jobs, Mr. Gay wrote about stic Tennsee wh an si observer’s eye for lol lor and a hyperbolist’s light regnal idsyncrasi. Gay created a hometown for his fiercely eccentric, furly motivated or morally challenged characters — Ackerman’s Field, Tenn.

STEELERS' WILLIAM GAY GETS PICK-SIX, RIPS OFF LEBRON JAM WH CELEBRATN DANCE

Gay wrote “The Paperhanger, ” a short story about a man who killed a ltle girl bee she had looked at him funny. Gay’s prose, not exactly purple, was often ght wh mythic ronance — that serpent, for example — which sued the amb parabl of good and evil that drew him.

Gay to the readg world beyond lerary journals, he created a battle between Dallas Hard, a malevolent bootlegger, and Nathan Wer, the young rpenter Hard hir to build a honky-tonk on the property he has taken over om s crippled owner.

Gay’s imagatn, ” Richard Bernste wrote The New York Tim Book Review about “Provc of Night, ” “giv this book s nsirable narrative power but also mak far-fetched, termtently zany, somethg about four-fifths Flkner wh ‘The Omen’ fillg the rt. “Gay succsfully this form’s abily to unsettle rears, forcg them to see anew darker aspects of humany.

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” BerkleyWilliam Elbert Gay was born Hohenwald on Oct. Gay’s fay. A rear om a young age, William Gay was troduced to the work of the novelist Thomas Wolfe by a high school teacher, and he disvered the Sig paperback edns of tl by Southern wrers like Flannery O’Connor that would lor his own fictn.

WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70; WRER TIED TO TENNSEE

Gay said of a llectn of O’Connor’s short stori an terview last year wh the Tennsee Lerary Project, an archive at Middle Tennsee State Universy. Gay had bee a full-time wrer, but as a figure on the lerary scene, ved to wrers’ nferenc and llege mp, he was a stranger a strange land.

Gay’s marriage, to Dianne Bowen, end divorce. And Chris; two dghters, Lee Gay Warren and Lra Shapiro; a brother, Cody; eight grandchildren; and four step-grandchildren. ’ ” A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 22 of the New York edn wh the headle: William Gay Di at 70; Wrer Tied to Tennsee.

Ptsburgh rnerback William Gay tercepted a tipped AJ McCarron pass and ran 23 yards untouched to the endzone to give the Steelers a 22-7 lead Ccnati Sunday, and unleashed one of the most excsive celebratns NFL history.

PTSBURGH CB WILLIAM GAY CELEBRAT PICK-SIX FOR A FULL 60 SENDS

As soon as Gay reached the endzone, he turned and danced wh Brandon Boyk for a few sends, and if he stopped there would have been jt a standard touchdown celebratn. Gay wasn’t fished, though. As he walked over toward the Ptsburgh sile, Gay did The Whip wh Mike Mchell, and pped wh a firm handshake.

STORI OM THE ATTIC, PREVLY UNPUBLISHED WORK BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY DAWN MAJOR

A flag was thrown for excsive celebratn — but by that pot, Gay had no real reason to stop. As the referee was announcg the penalty, Gay was lerally walkg on his kne across the field to embrace a ach. The stigma of effemacy and bullyg is discsed, the age-old joke about ‘men wearg tights’ or ‘you have to be gay to be a ballet dancer.

It’s the clost we get to hearg about the touchy subject of pk tut and homophobia – thank goodns bee ’s entirely irrelevant. He also, one glor dancehall scene, got to show the phoria of a 1960s gay Black man fally dancg his way out of the closet. Acrdg to The New York Tim, Williams didn’t intify as gay, but still “relished the sheer liberty of rog around a space unencumbered.

At the start of the pageant, a bised Montrose star at the drag queens and openly gay upl om the rner of the room. After William Gay’s passg 2012 a mounta of unpublished work was disvered and Team Gay—a group of artists, thors, profsors, scholars, basilly uber fans— was formed.

I LOVE WILLIAM GAY’S ‘THE LONG HOME’

I me to the picture while wrg my master this 2016 and I reached out to the archive for more -pth rmatn on Gay’s wrg.

After I graduated, I uldn’t let go of William Gay, and I beme part of Team Gay.

The team has published four novels and now this fal llectn, Stori om the Attic—an apt tle as some of his works were actually disvered an attic where Gay was livg while raisg his fay. Publishg Gay’s work has been challengg sce was wrten Gay’s idsyncratic scrawlg longhand and had to be transcribed.