Faggots [Paperback]

Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time,Faggotsis the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless state of being in Great Shape. Finally he is ready to find Mr. Right. But from the Everhard Baths, to the Pines on Fire Island, to that place of myth and legend, The Meat Rack, Lemish is looking for his dream lover in all the wrong places.Faggotsis a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one mans desperate search for permanence, commitment, and love.USLarry Kramer(1935-2020) was a writer and activist. In 1981, with five friends, he founded Gay Mens Health Crisis, and in 1987 he founded ACT UP. He is the author ofThe Normal Heart, which in 2014 was made into an Emmy-winning TV adaptation by HBO. His other plays includeThe Destiny of Me,Sissies Scrapbook, andJust Say No, and his prose work includesThe American People Volumes 1 & 2, the novelFaggots, two nonfiction books, and a screenplay,Women in Love. He was a recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award, presented by the Tony Awards Committee.