“Stori om the Attic” by William Gay - Southern Lerary Review

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Mr. Gay was a self-tght novelist om ral Tennsee who emerged om obscury his late 50s wh crilly praised books the Southern Gothic style.

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“STORI OM THE ATTIC” BY WILLIAM GAY

The stgglg homosexual has been a force southern l, though often as a sendary character or as the unregnized force that s liv.

The “dirty b” beg the homosexual part.

GAY SOUTHERN WRER SNAPS HIS FGERS AND THKS OF HOME

The southern them Williams’ life—hopelsns, madns, reprsed homosexualy, alholism, rentment, impossible love—all play out geoly his work. In , the life of the ma character, Asher Sharp, is forever changed by his nnectn wh two gay men who help his son. After gettg to know the gay uple who helped his son, Asher n no longer stomach the Old World homophobia that afflicts his ngregatn and the lol urthoe, who was refg to give out marriage licens to gay upl, and his own life, wh his separatn om his gay brother.

WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70; WRER TIED TO TENNSEE

And yet, phras like “Tmp Country” also rce an entire regn to a sgle, homogeno, ignorant ncept.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY SOUTHERN WRITER

Gay Southern wrer snaps his fgers and thks of home.

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