My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299231208 ISBN 13: 9780299231200

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009

Synopsis

From Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, and Diana Ross to Queen Elizabeth I, Julia Child, and Princess Leia, these divas have been sister, alter ego, fairy godmother, or model for survival to gay men and the closeted boys they once were. And anyone—straight or gay, young or old, male or female—who ever needed a muse, or found one, will see their own longing mirrored here as well.
    These witty and poignant short essays explore reasons for diva-worship as diverse as the writers themselves. My Diva offers both depth and glamour as it pays tribute with joy, intelligence, and fierce, fierce love.
  Finalist, Lambda Book Award for LGBT Anthology, Lambda Literary Foundation

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Montlack is professor of English at Berkeley College in New York City. He has published two chapbooks of poetry, Girls, Girls, Girls and Cover Charge. This book was inspired by his love for Stevie Nicks.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

“Part flapper, she could wrap her lovely figure up in her long brown mink or coat of lynx. Her cigarette was always held at bay from the tangerine or pink gloss of her lips by the dark span of a cigarette holder.”—Scott Hightower, on Aurora de Albornoz “There is something about these larger-than-life stars that represents our yearnings for vindication, in which we see ourselves transcending the difficulties a gay man faces in this world.”—Edward Field, on Gloria Swanson

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0299231208
• ISBN 13: 9780299231200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Montlack Michael