Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0010
{"title":"Once, My Husband","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"In the personal essayOnce, My Husband, Diane Daniel describes the day of the transsexual surgery of her husband-then-wife.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128381014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0006
{"title":"Pete and Daniel","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"In Pete and Daniel, an excerpt from Michael Parker's novel Virginia Lovers, two semi-estranged teenage brothers, Pete and Daniel, talk about Daniel's homosexuality and what really happened the night of a party when a gay classmate was killed.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129296810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0011
Je suis Hébreu, hkalm mela’kah, hdwbe ‘abodah
{"title":"Jonas","authors":"Je suis Hébreu, hkalm mela’kah, hdwbe ‘abodah","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Jonas, a short story by Belle Boggs, charts the journey of married couple Melinda and Jonas through Jonas's transition into becoming a woman-now called Joan-as the two negotiate the complicated realms of family, societal acceptance, and love.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131917347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0020
{"title":"Where Your Children Are","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0020","url":null,"abstract":"In Where Your Children Are, by Wayne Johns, a teenage boy wishes that his friend-or he himself-would fall prey to the Atlanta child serial-killer rather than have his gayness exposed.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121455345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0019
{"title":"Favorite Song","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"In the short story Favorite Song, by Emily Chávez, the cracks and tension in a relationship begin to show when a woman's partner forbids her from seeing her old friend.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116908452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0022
{"title":"I Thought I Heard the Shuffle of Angels’ Feet","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0022","url":null,"abstract":"In I Thought I Heard the Shuffle of Angels' Feet, a short story by Randall Kenan, a gay architect mourning the death of his lover from AIDS unexpectedly finds a second chance at romantic happiness in the local mechanic's garage.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114782406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sissy Boy","authors":"Ricardo Llamas","doi":"10.3917/vaca.003.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/vaca.003.0048","url":null,"abstract":"In Sissy Boy, an excerpt from Toni Newman's memoir I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman, recounts her journey from her hometown of Jacksonville, North Carolina, where from an early age she knew she was \"a different bird born in the wrong body.\" The excerpt follows her through childhood as a \"sissy boy,\" her identification with female students in school, travails in high school and college, her first time loving a man, her decision to study sociology instead of medicine, her entry into the world of drag clubs, her secret relationship with a male friend of her football-player roommate, to finally her interactions with the transsexual streetwalkers that ultimately inspired her own transformation.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127828365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0002
{"title":"Navis","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"InNavis, an excerpt from the novel The Queen of Palmyra byMinroseGwin, Florence, a young White girl glimpses the racial tensions in her small town of Millville in a subtle but significant interaction between her Mama and the customers of her cake business. Mama's insistence on referring to African-Americans as \"Negroes\" (a more respectful address, according to Mama's African-American acquaintances) instead of \"colored\" upsets some of her \"Cake Ladies,\" as Florence calls them, but Mama is supported by her friend,Navis. When Florence asks whether Mama plans to make Florence's father say it, too, Mama slaps her and sends her to her room. Later, Florence sees her mother's upset reaction but doesn't quite understand it fully.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127127687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0016
{"title":"Let Me Tell You About the Fireworks","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"The prose poem Let Me Tell You About the Fireworks, by Eric Tran, encapsulates the joy brought on by the arrival of gay marriage and the positive hopes for the future, while a subtle sense of unease lingers at the end.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"297 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130537551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0008
R. West
{"title":"The Handoff","authors":"R. West","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"In The Handoff, a flash fiction piece by John Pierre Craig, the narrator Bobby, a sixteen-year-old working in a barber shop, glimpses the matter-of-fact queerness of two soldiers, which suggests to him a way of being and possible future for himself.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122527939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}