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Men Seeking Men: Adventures in Gay Personals
From local queer newspapers and big city dailies, to telephone and on-line match-making services, personals ads are the newest inning in the gay mating game. But is that irresistible hunk or honey, in back-of-the-book fine print, all he's cracked up to be? MEN SEEKING MEN collects the real-life adventures of gay guys who met their dream man (or nightmare date) by placing or answering a personals ad. When those who place ads meet those who answer them, anything can happen--from lubriciously sexy to ludicrously funny, from outrageously shocking to heart-warming, toe-curling, quirky, kinky--and did we mention sexy?
231 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 1998
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About the author
Michael Lassell
29 books13 followersMichael Lassell has written extensively in the fields of design, travel, the arts and GLBT studies. His poetry, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad, as well as numerous college and university textbooks.
He has been most often anthologized for his poem, written at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, "How to Watch Your Brother Die."
His work behind the scenes on Broadway with Disney have been described as some of the most honest accounts of production life.
He was the features director of "Metropolitan Home" from 1992 until 2009. And has served as managing editor of Interview and L.A. Style magazines, as well as a theater critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and L.A. Weekly.
Lassell currently resides in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Also writes as Michael Lewis.
He has been most often anthologized for his poem, written at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, "How to Watch Your Brother Die."
His work behind the scenes on Broadway with Disney have been described as some of the most honest accounts of production life.
He was the features director of "Metropolitan Home" from 1992 until 2009. And has served as managing editor of Interview and L.A. Style magazines, as well as a theater critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and L.A. Weekly.
Lassell currently resides in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Also writes as Michael Lewis.
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August 16, 2013
Let’s face it. Personal ads are a crapshoot and this book has its share of crap and shooting. Filled with amusing, poignant, erotic or delirious tales of taking a chance at meeting that special someone, these stories of the trials of men (or others) striving to connect, if only for one night, is just as stirring as when it was written in the 1990s. The urge for connection remains a constant no matter what era you live in or what your sexuality is and “Men Seeking Men” lays out that desire in all its fumbling uncertainty and occasional glory.
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