Published in the May 2025 Edition
By Frank Pizzoli
20 interviews include Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano [separately and as the then surviving members of The Violet Quill], Martin Duberman, Salman Rushdie, Lesbian Avenger cofounder Anne-christine d’Adesky, Susan Quinn on Eleanor Roosevelt’s love affair with a reporter, Gore Vidal's biographer Jay Parini, Vidal's lifelong friend Michael Mewshaw, John Rechy, and others. Christopher Bram has written the Afterword. History, gossip, good backstory. Amazon lists it as a New Top Seller. Available from Rebel Satori Press.
From the Introduction:
"If, as writers, activists, and advocates, we stand on the shoulders of all those who came before us, it is our first responsibility to know who they were in their own words."
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