John Rechy je americký autor, ktorý skúma témy homosexuálnej kultúry a širšej americkej spoločnosti. Ako priekopník modernej LGBT literatúry čerpá zo svojich vlastných skúseností, aby vytvoril živé portréty marginalizovaných komunít. Jeho diela, ktoré často prenikajú do zložitostí identity a túžby, sa vyznačujú odvážnym štýlom a prenikavým pohľadom na americký život. Napriek tomu, že jeho diela boli v minulosti predmetom cenzúry, získal si trvalé uznanie pre svoj literárny význam a schopnosť vyvolať silné reakcie u čitateľov.
A novel on the golden age of homosexuality, after it became an accepted state and before AIDS put a dampener. The action follows for one day a variety of gays in 1981 Los Angeles, including an old man envious of the freedom enjoyed by the younger generation. By the author of City of Night
In this angry, eloquent outcry against the oppression of homosexuals, the author of the classic City of Night gives "an explosive non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground" of Los Angeles in the 1970s--the "battlefield" of the sexual outlaw. Using the language and techniqus of the film, Rechy deftly intercuts the despairing, joyful, and defiant confessions of a male hustler with the "chorus" of his own subversive reflections on sexual identity and sexual politics, and with stark documentary reports our society directs against homosexuals--"the only minority against whose existence there are laws."
Records the adventures of a male hustler as he stalks the hideouts of homosexuals in Los Angeles
The taboo-busting 1960s classic that gave voice to a hidden subculture.