An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News
by Amy Hoffman
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Author: Amy HoffmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN: 1558496211
Number of pages: 165
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
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Book Review: Literate, Funny, Liberatingly Insightful!
Summary: 5 Stars
Those were crazy, foundation-shifting days in the 1970's when all manner of people, ideas and lifestyles were breaking free of closets and shadows and Amy Hoffman was searching to find shelter with a community of like-minded souls. And find that community she did! And bring it back to life she does. In a humorous, irony-tinged portrait of the people and flotsam that floated through and around the waters of the Gay Community News in Boston in the 1970's. This is an enjoyable memoir written by a woman who sees beyond the facade of things, and who can report on them with a sharp-tongued memory. I recommend it for non-gays as well as gays, men as well as women, and for anyone interested in taking a front row seat at a parade of change that will never pass this way again.
Summary of An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News
A vivid, funny portrait of the four tumultuous years a young editor spent working in the gay press. Boston's weekly Gay Community News was the center of the universe during the late 1970s, writes Amy Hoffman in this memoir of gay liberation before AIDS, before gay weddings, and before The L Word. Provocative, informative, inspiring, and absurd, with a small circulation but a huge influence, Gay Community News produced a generation of leaders, writers, and friends. In addition to capturing the heady atmosphere of the times the victories, controversies, and tragedies Hoffman's memoir is also her personal story, written with wit and insight, of growing up in a political movement; of her deepening relationships with charismatic, talented, and sometimes utterly weird coworkers; and of trying to explain it all to her large Jewish family.Memoirs Books
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