cover image Hometowns: Gay Men Write about Where They Belong

Hometowns: Gay Men Write about Where They Belong

John Preston. Plume Books, $13.95 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26855-5

Less about geography than about the need to belong, these 28 gay writers' moving essays about their sense of home elucidate the adolescent disenfranchisement of gay males in small communities. BOMC and QPB selections in cloth. (Oct.)