The mammoth book of gay erotica / edited by Lawrence Schimel.

Billy Crow / Philip Ridley -- By the numbers / William J. Mann -- Bodily fluids / Kerry Bashford -- Adonis: a personal history of the porn palace / Don Shewey -- Peter and the drunk / Andrew Holleran -- Do as the Romans do / Steven Saylor writing as Aaron Travis -- Learning how to crawl / Tony Ayres -- One Thursday in November / Michael Lassell -- E Vero? / Edmund White -- The day I went gay / Lars Eighner -- The shed / Robin Metcalfe -- Trust / Jameson Currier -- The robber bridegroom / James Ireland Baker -- Expertise / Felice Picano -- Tattooed love boy / D. Travers Scott -- Used to dream / C. Bard Cole -- from The swimming-pool library / Alan Hollinghurst -- Scratch / Patrick Carr -- John / G. Winston James -- Sex in the seventies; or fade to blank / Michael Denneny -- The barracks / Stan Persky -- Ghosts / Paul Russell -- Geography / Phil Gambone -- New York 1942 / Christopher Bram -- The blue dragon / Michael Thomas Ford -- A matter of taste / Dean Raven -- To/From / Matthew Rettenmund -- Blowing hot and cold / Barry Lowe -- Chronic manageable illness / James Hannaham -- Wrestling with an angel / Larry Duplechan -- Burning bridges / Lawrence Schimel -- The silent star / David Evans -- Playing bitch / Chris Leslie -- How do we communicate love? / Aiden Shaw -- The qualities of lettuce / Paul Allatson -- Tourist traps / Jim Provenzano -- A letter from Paris / Will Leber -- Couple / Neil Bartlett.