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Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men | 
 enlarge | Authors: Melissa De La Cruz, Tom Dolby
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0525950176
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7662090511
EAN: 9780525950172
ASIN: 0525950176
Publication Date: May 17, 2007
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Product Description
A celebration of the most important relationship in a straight girls lifeher gay best friend.
Thanks to iconic duos such as Sex and the Citys Carrie and Stanford and the title characters of Will & Grace, the love affair between straight women and gay men has moved into the mainstream. Never before, though, has a book looked at these friendships in the real world.
The editors, themselves best friends, have put together this collection of hilarious and poignant never-before-published essays that explore this unique relationship. In addition to stories about single girls and gay guys bonding over shopping sprees and brunch, these stories chronicle love and lust, infatuation and heartbreak, growing up and coming out, and family and children.
Straight women and gay men alike will relate to these tales from a diverse array of contributors, ranging from literary novelists to Emmy Award winners, single girls about town to mothers of four, downtown performance artists to Hollywood scenesters. This definitive anthology, the first of its kind, proves that more durable than diamonds, straight women and gay men are each others true best friends.
A share of the proceeds from this book will benefit The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping gay teens.
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Bonding May 23, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
De la Cruz, Melissa and Tom Dolby, editors. "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men", Dutton, 2007.
Bonding
Amos Lassen and Literary Pride
The new book with the long title has just as much information as the title seems to have in words. "Girls Who Like Boys..." is a wonderful new collection that looks at the bonds between straight women and gay men. It is an anthology made up of personal essays about friendships and relationships.
Starting off with a great foreword by the author of the "Tales of the City" series, Armistead Maupin that explains the nature of the book, we are taken on a careful look at a kind of love that is not sexual in nature. Society has looked at straight women who befriend gays as covers-up, beards and what have you. What we learn here it is that neither gender nor sexuality that "dictates the tenants of our heart".
The editors, Melissa de la Cruz and Tom Dolby looked at themselves and their own relationship and this is what prompted them to book like this together. This is the first personal book ever done on the subject and it includes the writings of 28 authors who explore their special relationships in topics from parenthood to friendship.
Divided into five separate sections, each dealing with different aspects of relationships, the book is just that much more fun to read. Group dynamics are dealt with in the first section under the topic of "Guys and Gals". These group dynamics range from shopping sprees to be there for one another during periods of good times and of need.
"Close Confidants" deals with one-on-one relationships that have people together and the five essays here are moving and funny.
"A Fine Romance" contains stories of love as well as lust based on the either wrong comprehension or misinterpretation and well-meant advice as well as resignation.
As could be expected there is a section on "Growing Up, Coming Out" which is based on friendship during the years that identity is formed and if you remember those years like I do the essays are about the guys who don't fit as well as the girls.
Finally we come to "Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons' which deals with the ties that bind. It is interesting here that there is even one essay about a mother who hopes that one of her sons will be gay so that he will have some of the qualities that she values in her gay friends.
Taken as a whole, we get a unique picture of a straight-gay relationships. Many people do not understand that these kinds of relationships exist, especially in rural Arkansas and it is s good to have a book that explains it and does so in such a beautiful way.
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