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Two Hearts Desire: Gay Couples on Their Love
The latest in the Stonewall Inn series of gift books is a glance at gay romance through the eyes and pens of couples. From current lovers, past lovers, and surviving lovers to long-term lovers, those in new relationships, and nontraditional pairings, Lassell and Schimel take a fresh look at the many varieties and flavors of gay male love.
- GenresNonfictionLGBT
86 pages, Hardcover
First published January 15, 1997
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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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April 25, 2015
This is a beautiful little book of reflections by gay men who are in love with each other.
Each reflection is different and includes prose, poetry, memos, thoughts and so on. Each couple is very different from the man who married his housekeeper (Richard Labonte and Asa Dean Liles) to the couple who loved and lived together and then loved and lived apart, to the couple who have 30 years between them. (Revd Malcolm Boyd and Mark Thompson)
Thirty years!!
And yet they made it work until the older man (Revd Malcolm Boyd) died just this year at the age of 91.
What a life story!
What a life long love!
And all of this real life, empowering love is captured by simple words, notes, thoughts. Just so amazing.
I bought this out of curiosity because it includes one of my favourite authors but reading it has led me to writings and lives of so many others and I feel touched and moved and full of hope because this little book shows how real love can be. It isn't easy as these writings show but it is possible.
Where there is love there is hope.
Each reflection is different and includes prose, poetry, memos, thoughts and so on. Each couple is very different from the man who married his housekeeper (Richard Labonte and Asa Dean Liles) to the couple who loved and lived together and then loved and lived apart, to the couple who have 30 years between them. (Revd Malcolm Boyd and Mark Thompson)
Thirty years!!
And yet they made it work until the older man (Revd Malcolm Boyd) died just this year at the age of 91.
What a life story!
What a life long love!
And all of this real life, empowering love is captured by simple words, notes, thoughts. Just so amazing.
I bought this out of curiosity because it includes one of my favourite authors but reading it has led me to writings and lives of so many others and I feel touched and moved and full of hope because this little book shows how real love can be. It isn't easy as these writings show but it is possible.
Where there is love there is hope.
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