Briefly told lives

the long version

"In Briefly Told Lives, C. Bard Cole presents a wild panorama that sweeps from the urban gay ghetto to working-class suburbia to the counterculture of punks and sex workers - a shockingly original view of lives lived on the edge of both straight society and the gay "mainstream." A broad tapestry in which conventional dividing lines begin to lose their fixed meaning, these stories tell of characters who spin their own master narratives, revealing lives rich in meaning and bought dearly through pain and compromise."--BOOK JACKET.