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Carregando... It was too soon before-- : the unlikely life, untimely death, and unexpected rebirth of gay pioneer, Dirk Vandende Dirk Vanden
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It Was Too Soon Before... is the autobiography of Richard Fullmer who wrote under the penname Dirk Vanden. He was a serious novelist in the early days of the development of the gay literary genre. His first books were published--augmented with sex scenes inserted by the publisher--as porn pulps. This autobiography tells the story of his life from his upbringing as a devout Mormon to his discovery of sexual realities, to his move to the gay meccas of San Francisco and Los Angeles in the 1960s and discovery of the thriving gay counterculture with all its sexual and psychedelic dimensions, through the death by AIDS of his longtime partner, to retirement and obscurity, to a ''rebirth'' as his books have been rediscovered by modern gay literary scholars. Included is ''The Wit & Wisdom of Gabriel Horny,'' a collection of humor and wisdom in short aphorisms that express the profound and often whimsical spiritual wisdom Vanden has garnered through his seventy-eight years. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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On the contrary of many memoirs, the fascination of having the feeling of reading a story remains in this book, and Dirk Vanden is a superb storyteller, he is passing his life like he was writing a novel, always true to himself, but also to the narrative style.
There is basically all spectrum of emotion, happiness, rage, sadness, excitement, desperation, hope. And all spectrum of vocabulary, cause Dirk Vanden, as an author, is considered a pioneer of gay porn pulps, and so there is sex, but not the “romantic” type of romance, more the anonymous sex of the bathhouses of a ’70 pre-AIDS San Francisco. But then there is the romance, a long-term relationship, and there is the tragic ending of that. There is the rebirth, much like the man on the cover: the original painting is lost, burned down along with the bathhouse where it was hanging, but the digital edition of that is now passing on history as the cover for the author’s biography (Dirk Vanden is also the artist who painted it).
This biography won the Rainbow Awards, the reprinting of Vanden’s porn pulp novels won a Lammy Award, a superserious publisher like Lethe Press decided to take Vanden under their umbrella: this is a new season for him, and I wish this author many more successes.
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