Twisted Straight: A Memoir Thesis

(2011). Twisted Straight: A Memoir . 10.25148/etd.FI11051004

thesis or dissertation chair

authors

  • Garnett, Nicholas

abstract

  • TWISTED STRAIGHT is a 103,000 word memoir, which chronicles the author’s ten-year relationship to the ebullient, witty, but destructive woman he married, and their subsequent immersion in gay culture, specifically the circuit-party scene.

    TWISTED STRAIGHT is set in the heyday of the gay circuit scene, and the 90s, the decade in which it became hip to be gay. It is a unique perspective on a sub-culture off limits to most heterosexual men. Just as importantly, the story describes a man’s search for himself, for a real connection with his electrifying but emotionally damaged wife, for a break from his past, and for meaning in a life buried deep beneath a lifestyle.

publication date

  • February 24, 2011

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