Our Legacies (ePub)

Together, the six authors in this anthology paint a diverse and

multivocal
portrait of gay male aging, gay history, and gay culture. Through

a
collection of poems, prose, and essays, these men examine and

narrate
the experience of being an older gay male in the new

millenium. As
members of Chicagos gay community, the words of Allen

Brown,
Ralph Conrad, Randy Gresham, Joe Kenney, Tom Stabnicki and

Dion
Walton offer layered, heartbreaking, and humorous perspectives

on the
meaning of gay and gray in the year 2010. The collection is

edited by
Dustin Bradley Goltz, PhD, Assistant Professor at DePaul

University,
whose research explores the gay youth obsession and the

discursive
production of gay male future in contemporary popular culture.

From
activism and loss, to relationships and hope, this edited

anthology
works to both preserve and pass on their legacies to gay

cultures of
the present, of gay cultures now past, and for the ones that

are yet
to be.
The writers and artists, Allen Brown, Ralph Conrad, Randy
Gresham, Joe Kenney, Tom Stabnicki and Dion Walton, each live
in Chicago and are members of The Center on Halsteds SAGE
Program. Dustin Bradley Goltz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of
Performance Studies and Rhetoric at DePaul University in

Chicago,
in The College of Communication.
This book was published though the support of DePaul

Universitys
College of Communication.