Gay Travels: A Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companions)

From the foreword by Felice Picano

"This volume makes no attempt to rival those gay travel guides that already exist. It is something different, far more intriguing: a collection of stories that aim at being what Herman Melville deemed "an inside narrative." That is, what being a gay man in a foreign land really feels like, smells like, tastes like, and hurts like. The voices here might be likened to those of friends sitting around a dinner table the night before your journey who provide you with insights and warnings that only later do you discover add infinitely to your excursion."

Table of Content

Felice Picano "Foreword"
Lucy Jane Bledsoe "Preface"
Spain Brian Bouldrey "Pilgrim's Regress"
Beijing Philip Gambone "Invading Their Space"
Olympia Darieck Scott "Ride of the Centaurs"
Tangier Joe Orton "Tangier Diary"
California Rondo Mieczkowski "Bodies in Motion"
India Adam Klein "A Desert Shade"
Israel Hanns Ebensten "First Night in the Promised Land"
Berlin and beyond Edmund White "Shopping"
Central Africa Cary Alan Johnson "Obi's Story"
Mexico City Andrew Holleran "Sleepless in Mexico"
Sacramento Michael Nava "Journey to 1971"
Tobago Achim Nowak "Jungle Fever 138"
Russia David Tuller "Broken Romance"
Barcelona Erasmo Guerra "La Placa Reial"
Indiana Michael Lowenthal "Sand Niggers and a Tallboy Bud"
Paris James Baldwin "Equal in Paris"
Capri and beyond Paul Monette "A One-Way Fare"