All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.

All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.
by Craig Seymour

All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.
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Author: Craig Seymour
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 1416542051
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Atria

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Book Review: Amazing read ... confirms a lot of suspicions
Summary: 5 Stars

I found the book to be extremely engaging. It answered a lot of suspicions I had harbored for decades. We finally get the truth as to why Matt Drudge and Andrew Sullivan have been such close friends and the part that African-American men play in that bond. Absolutely riveting!

Summary of All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.

A FRANK, FUNNY, EXPLICIT, AND INSPIRING MEMOIR ABOUT HOW DANCING NAKED IN GAY CLUBS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL HELPED A COLLEGE PROFESSOR DISCOVER HIS TRUE SELF.

I felt that I'd made a transformation as surely as Superman slipping out of a phone booth or Wonder Woman doing a sunburst spin. I was bare-ass in a room of paying strangers, a stripper. After years of wondering what it would be like, I had done it -- faced a fear, defied expectation, embraced a taboo self. It was only the beginning....

All I Could Bare is the story of a mild-mannered graduate student who "took the road less clothed" -- a decision that was life changing. Seymour embarked on his journey in the 1990s, when Washington, D.C.'s gay club scene was notoriously no-holds-barred, all the while trying to keep his newfound vocation a secret from his parents and maintain a relation-ship with his boyfriend, Seth. Along the way he met some unforgettable characters -- the fifty-year-old divorc? who's obsessed with a twenty-one-year-old dancer, the celebrated drag diva who hailed from a small town in rural Virginia, and the many straight guys who were "gay for pay." Seymour gives us both the highs (money, adoration, camaraderie) and the lows (an ill-fated attempt at prostitution, a humiliating porn audition).

Ultimately coming clean about his secret identity, Seymour breaks through taboos and makes his way from booty-baring stripper to Ph.D.-bearing academic, taking a detour into celebrity journalism and memorably crossing paths with Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige along the way. Hilarious, insight-ful, and touching, All I Could Bare proves that sometimes the "wrong decision" can lead to the right place.

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