Gay Lives

Introduction
1. The Man of Letters and the Don
John Addington Symonds and Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds
The Autobiography of G. Lowes Dickinson
2. Auden & Co
Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender
Lions and Shadows
World within World
Christopher and His Kind
3. The Detective and the Comedian
J. R. Ackerley and Quentin Crisp
My Father and Myself
The Naked Civil Servant
4. Three French Novelists
André Gide, Jean Genet, and Julien Green
Si le grain ne meurt
Journal du voleur
Jeunes and années
5. Two American Diarists
Jeb Alexander and Donald Vining
Jeb and Dash
A Gay Diary
6. The Closet and Its Discontents
Andrew Tobias, Martin Duberman, and Paul Monette
The Best Little Boy in the World
Cures
Becoming a Man
Epilogue
Sources
Index