An anthology encyclopedic in scale, GAY ROOTS collects the best writings from the turnulent early 1970s - the very beginning of modern gay liberation - right up to the present day. Work from GAY SUNSHINE JOURNAL - the groundbreaking tabloid that served as a forum and catalyst for the revolution underway - appears together with some of the most catalytic gay writing published by Gay Sunshine Press, the oldest continuing gay book publisher in the United States.
Tennessee Williams wrote in 1977 of 'Gay Sunshine': "The only completely literate and serious Gay Journal with which I'm acquainted."
Five books in one, with sections on 'Gay History', 'Gay Sex and Politics', 'Gay Biography and Literary Essays', Gay Fiction' and 'Gay Poetry', GAY ROOTS is intended for every gay person desiring to reclaim a rich cultural tradition. Among the pieces included: 'Tinselled Bucks: American Indian Homosexuality', 'Russia's Gay History and Culture', Mexican Gaylife in Historical Perspective', 'Homosexuals in the anti-Nazi Underground', 'Arab Civilization and Male Love', 'Genderfuck and Its Delights'. 'A Faggot Father Speaks Out', 'The Gay Mishima', 'The Cinema of Camp' - un indepth study of homosexuality in film, Tennesee Williams on sexual identity in his plays, John Rechy's 'The New Censorship and Repression', Jean Genet and Gore Vidal on their own homosexuality, work by Boyd McDonald, Geoff Mains, Ned Rorem, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg...over 100 writers and artists in all.