Every True PleasurePub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0004
{"title":"Adult Art","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"In Adult Art, a short story by Allan Gurganus, a closeted gay Superintendent of Schools-who has what he calls an added tenderness-bonds with Barker, a shy newcomer in town, over their mutual love of the Adult Art Film and Book store. The evening unfolds as they watch an adult film together in Barker's house, stirring up old memories, imaginings of the future, and secret intimacy.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"49 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":"124750546","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/9781469646800.003.0015
{"title":"Hejira","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"In the personal essay Hejira, David Sedaris recounts the day his father kicked him out of the house at the age of twenty-two. David was confused at his mother's inconsolable crying as she said goodbye, because unbeknownst to David, his father had kicked him out because he was gay and not, as David originally assumed, because he was a bum.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"46 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":"133784686","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/9781469646800.003.0007
{"title":"Love the Soldier","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"In Love the Soldier, a short story by Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Keisha, a lesbian cop-turned-soldier spends her last weekend before deployment sorting out her complicated feelings regarding her brother Marcus's death, her preacher father's opposition to the war she's going to fight in, and her old love, Alex.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"176 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":"133372385","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/9781469646800.003.0018
{"title":"Rabbit Heart","authors":"","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"In Rabbit Heart, a short story by Alyssa Wong, a doctor who can create human bodies from rabbit cells in a laboratory is engaged in the business of resurrecting children for parents who rejected their child, for a second chance.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"24 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":"124264207","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 : 2011-09-04DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0014
Kevin Provance
{"title":"Without a Word","authors":"Kevin Provance","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646800.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"In the personal essay Without a Word, Zelda Lockhart describes her journey to discovering her sexuality and finding peace, happiness, self-love, and new relationships despite the troubles she faced along the way, including an abusive childhood, rejection from the first girl she loved, her beloved gay brother's death from AIDS, and estrangement from her family (especially her mother) due to her own sexuality.","PeriodicalId":338140,"journal":{"name":"Every True Pleasure","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115884009","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}