Gay Spirit/ Gay Soul Author:Mark Thompson This Triangle Classic edition brings together two landmark books from longtime "Advocate" editor Mark Thompson--Gay Soul is a compilation of his own arresting black-and-white photographs and searching, provocative interviews with sixteen renowned gay elders whose vision and leadership illuminate the spiritual dimension of gay lives. — Gay Spirit,... more » the psychic and creative energies generated by people we now call gay, has always existed on the outer shores of our culture's collective consciousness. In the past, gay people were labeled heretics, perversions of nature, or categorized pseudo-scientifically. Gay people lived on the edge of the global village or worked within its mainstream in denial and disguise. But today that spirit has re-emerged and lives among us.
Gay Spirit: This book of essays explores the possibilities of that spirit--suggesting ways in which gay people might find a place and purpose in human culture unique to themselves, departing with the questions asked nearly forty years ago by the Mattachine Society: Who are we? Where have we come from? Why are we here?« less