Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (book)
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men is a 2007 anthology co-edited by novelists Melissa de la Cruz and Tom Dolby,[1] comprising 28 personal essays about the subject. The foreword was written by Armistead Maupin.
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| Editors | Melissa de la Cruz Tom Dolby |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Anthology |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
The book features pieces by Andrew Solomon, Cindy Chupack, Ayelet Waldman, Simon Doonan, David Ebershoff, Gigi Levangie Grazer, K. M. Soehnlein and others.[2]
A reality television show inspired by the anthology, entitled Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, aired on the Sundance Channel in Winter 2010.[3] Dolby and de la Cruz served as Consulting Producers in the series.
Contents
- Gays and Gals
- Karen Robinovitz -- "Shop Girls"
- Simon Doonan -- "Fag Hags: The Laughter, The Tears, The Marabou"
- K. M. Soehnlein -- "The Collectors"
- Cecil Castellucci -- "My Fairy Godfathers"
- Mike Albo -- "That Unsettling Feeling"
- Close Confidants
- Alexandra Jacobs -- "A Harvard (Fag) Hag-iography"
- James Lecesne -- "My Best Girlfriend"
- Gigi Levangie Grazer -- "My Dinners with Tom"
- David Ebershoff -- "Man's Best Friend"
- Wendy Mass -- "Marriage Material"
- A Fine Romance
- Stacey Ballis -- "Everything I Always Wanted to Know About Sex (and Life) I Learned from Gay Men"
- Anna David -- "Love in Other Lifetimes"
- Tom Dolby - "Future Perfect"
- Melissa de la Cruz -- "A Manhattan Love Story"
- Sarah Kate Levy -- "Super Couple"
- Cindy Chupack -- "Get This"
- Growing Up, Coming Out
- David Levithan -- "The Good Girls"
- Michael Musto -- "Welcome to My Dollhouse"
- Brian Sloan -- "Donny and Marie Don't Get Married"
- Elizabeth Spiers - "Life Before Gays"
- Zakiyyah Alexander -- "The Long Trip Home"
- Edwin John Wintle -- "Lay It All Down"
- Bennet Madison -- "Shutterspeed"
- Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons
- Andrew Solomon -- "In Praise of Women"
- Philip Himberg -- "Family Albums"
- Abigail Garner -- "Like Father, Like Daughter"
- Zach Udko -- "Sitting in the Dark With My Mother"
- Ayelet Waldman -- "Darling I Like You That Way"
References
- Parks, Joy. "Dishing on straight girls and their gay boyfriends", San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2007 retrieved 2010-10-03
- "Un-fatal attractions," The San Francisco Chronicle, May 27, 2007
- "SundanceChannel.com, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys". Archived from the original on 2011-04-01. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
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