Our Legacies

Together, the six authors in this anthology paint a diverse and multivocalportrait of gay male aging, gay history, and gay culture. Through acollection of poems, prose, and essays, these men examine and narratethe experience of being an older gay male in the new millenium. Asmembers of Chicagos gay community, the words of Allen Brown,Ralph Conrad, Randy Gresham, Joe Kenney, Tom Stabnicki and DionWalton offer layered, heartbreaking, and humorous perspectives on themeaning of gay and gray in the year 2010. The collection is edited byDustin Bradley Goltz, PhD, Assistant Professor at DePaul University,whose research explores the gay youth obsession and the discursiveproduction of gay male future in contemporary popular culture. Fromactivism and loss, to relationships and hope, this edited anthologyworks to both preserve and pass on their legacies to gay cultures ofthe present, of gay cultures now past, and for the ones that are yetto be.The writers and artists, Allen Brown, Ralph Conrad, RandyGresham, Joe Kenney, Tom Stabnicki and Dion Walton, each livein Chicago and are members of The Center on Halsteds SAGEProgram. Dustin Bradley Goltz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor ofPerformance Studies and Rhetoric at DePaul University in Chicago,in The College of Communication.This book was published though the support of DePaul UniversitysCollege of Communication.