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Golden Men: The Power of Gay Midlife
By Harold Kooden Ph. D & Charles Flowers
Avon Gay Studies, Harper Colins Publishers
ISBN: 0-380-80443-3
This is an affirming look at aging among older gay men. Part of the dedication is to "all those deceased gay men who but for AIDS would have been such good role models [as] vibrant and exciting, middle-aged gay men." T he author says, "We are the ones who carry the messages that all those men who died of AIDS never managed to finish getting out."
Gay and Gray: The Older Homosexual Man
By Raymond M. Berger
University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0-252-00950-9
The first part of this book is a selection of case histories from the author's Interview Study. The second half contained directions for making up a questionnaire that lead to the construction of LOTS of tables, which I hate with a passion. I found the book to be interesting but seriously dated.
Look Me In the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism
by Barbara McDonald with Cynthia Rich
Spinsters Ink
ISBN: 0-933216-87-4
First published in 1983, this expanded edition contains new essays written in a different voice from the ones Macdonald and Rich used in their earlier work. She charted her own course and, with her partner Cynthia Rich, she looked into both the process and politics of aging and ageism. This book held the seed that started OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change).
Love, Above The Reach of Time: The Two Stories of The Ladies of Llangollen
By Anna M. Curran
LadyePress U.S.A
ISBN: 0-9707994-0-3
During the spring of 1778 Lady Eleanor Butler and the Honorable Sarah Ponsonby, eloped and smashed any of the current beliefs about female sexuality to smithereens. The author has also written a fictional screenplay that takes place at a dinner party in their home in 1815 and includes many of the famous people who sought their company.
The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life In The 1940s
By Ricardo J. Brown
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0-8166-3621-4
Brown's memoir of his experiences as a young gay man after World War II in St. Paul, Minnesota during the 1940s immediately transported me back in time to my own coming out in the early 1950s. This remarkable document contains moments when he and his friends stretched the limits of their closeted existence by not being willing to live lonely, isolated lives. Thirty-six years after being kicked out of the navy, Brown petitioned for a review of his discharge. On May 26, 1981, he was granted and honorable one. This is a fascinating read
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