Gay American autobiography: writings from Whitman to Sedaris / edited by David Bergman.

From his journals / Henry David Thoreau -- From his letters to Peter Doyle / Walt Whitman -- From his letters to Hendrick Andersen / Henry James -- Chumming with a Savage : Kana-ana / Charles Warren Stoddard -- Love's Dungeon Flower / Alexander Berkman -- Fleeing from Self (25 to 27) / Claude Hartland -- from Autobiography of an Androgyne / Earl Lind -- from Rat and the Devil / Russell Cheney and F. O. Matthiessen -- from Jeb and Dash / Jeb Alexander -- from Continual Lessons / Glenway Wescott -- Carlsen, Crane / Lincoln Kirstein -- The Magic Summer / Samuel M. Steward -- Spring and Summer 1956 / Paul Goodman -- The Priest and the Pagans / Tobias Schneebaum -- from The New York Diary / Ned Rorem -- Gay in the Army / Edward Field -- from Minette : Recollections of a Part-Time Lady / Minette -- Larry / Martin Duberman -- from A Day and a Night at the Baths / Michael Rumaker -- Voice Over : Four Factions of the Rear Guard / John Rechy -- from Young Man from the Provinces / Alan Helms -- from Under the Rainbow / Arnie Kantrowitz -- Writing Gay / Edmund White -- from The Motion of Light in Water / Samuel R. Delany -- My Harvard / Andrew Holleran -- Puck / Paul Monette -- The Last Days of Reinaldo Arenas : A Sadness as Deep as the Sea / Jaime Manrique -- Cherry / Kevin Killian -- The End of Being Known / Michael Klein -- Memories That Smell Like Gasoline / David Wojnarowicz -- On the Drip / David B. Feinberg -- Hejira / David Sedaris -- Ceremonies / Essex Hemphill -- The Aryan Boy / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Chivalry / Gil Cuadros -- And Judas Boogied until His Slippers Wept / Justin Chin -- Selected gay autobiographies and life writings.