The Joy of Gay Sex

This is an excerpt from Edmund White's 1973 book, The Joy of Gay Sex. At this time, the vast majority of people that were in this scene were people of color and gay people. This was something that like most of like straight mainstream America had no idea what was going on. In 1971, New York lifts a ban on male-male dancing. So it becomes legal for men to dance with each other,. which is also extremely important. And so my boyfriend was like playing a song to chronological order. And when he put this one on, I just immediately started to cry. Oh, we will talk about why, but let's listen to it.