Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1988). First Edition. Hardcover. 0312023073 . [very nice clean tight copy, no discernible wear; jacket has a couple of tiny surface-scars on front panel, minor soiling along the front flap foldover]. "Seven one-act plays, each in a different setting with different characters, which together trace the romantic comedy of gay male love in America through the last seven different decades," from "the secret sophistication of the international gay scene in the '20s through such variations as the poverty-enforced prostitution of the '30s, wartime revelty in the '40s, Cold War paranoia in the '50s, ghetto ritualization in the '60s, coming of age in the post-liberation '70s, to the plague-filled '80s." Introduction by Harvey Fierstein; Foreword by William M. Hoffman . (Inventory #: 23979)