''Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men'' is a 2007 anthology co-edited by novelists
Melissa de la Cruz and
Tom Dolby, comprising 28 personal essays about the subject. The foreword was written by
Armistead Maupin.
The book features pieces by
Andrew Solomon,
Cindy Chupack,
Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman ( he, איילת ולדמן, born December 11, 1964) is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist. She has written seven mystery novels in the series ''The Mommy-Track Mysteries'' and four other novels. She has also written autobi ...
,
Simon Doonan,
David Ebershoff,
Gigi Levangie Grazer,
K. M. Soehnlein
K.M. (Karl) Soehnlein (born November 24, 1965) is the American author of the novels ''The World of Normal Boys'' (2000), a 1970s coming-of-age story that won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Fiction; ''You Can Say You Knew Me When'' (2005) ...
and others.
A reality television show inspired by the anthology, entitled ''
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys'', aired on the Sundance Channel in Winter 2010.
Dolby and de la Cruz served as Consulting Producers in the series.
Contents
;Gays and Gals
*Karen Robinovitz -- "Shop Girls"
*
Simon Doonan -- "Fag Hags: The Laughter, The Tears, The Marabou"
*
K. M. Soehnlein
K.M. (Karl) Soehnlein (born November 24, 1965) is the American author of the novels ''The World of Normal Boys'' (2000), a 1970s coming-of-age story that won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Fiction; ''You Can Say You Knew Me When'' (2005) ...
-- "The Collectors"
*
Cecil Castellucci -- "My Fairy Godfathers"
*Mike Albo -- "That Unsettling Feeling"
;Close Confidants
*Alexandra Jacobs -- "A Harvard (Fag) Hag-iography"
*James Lecesne -- "My Best Girlfriend"
*
Gigi Levangie Grazer -- "My Dinners with Tom"
*
David Ebershoff -- "Man's Best Friend"
*
Wendy Mass
Wendy Mass (born April 22, 1967) is an author of young adult novels and children's books.
Her 2003 novel, '' A Mango-Shaped Space'' won the American Library Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004. Her other no ...
-- "Marriage Material"
;A Fine Romance
*Stacey Ballis -- "Everything I Always Wanted to Know About Sex (and Life) I Learned from Gay Men"
*
Anna David -- "Love in Other Lifetimes"
*
Tom Dolby - "Future Perfect"
*
Melissa de la Cruz -- "A Manhattan Love Story"
*Sarah Kate Levy -- "Super Couple"
*
Cindy Chupack -- "Get This"
;Growing Up, Coming Out
*
David Levithan -- "The Good Girls"
*
Michael Musto -- "Welcome to My Dollhouse"
*Brian Sloan -- "Donny and Marie Don't Get Married"
*Elizabeth Spiers - "Life Before Gays"
*Zakiyyah Alexander -- "The Long Trip Home"
*Edwin John Wintle -- "Lay It All Down"
*Bennet Madison -- "Shutterspeed"
;Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons
*
Andrew Solomon -- "In Praise of Women"
*Philip Himberg -- "Family Albums"
*
Abigail Garner
Abigail Garner (born 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American author and advocate for children with LGBT parents.
Biography
Garner is the author of ''Families Like Mine'', a compilation of interviews from more than 50 children of LGBT ...
-- "Like Father, Like Daughter"
*Zach Udko -- "Sitting in the Dark With My Mother"
*
Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman ( he, איילת ולדמן, born December 11, 1964) is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist. She has written seven mystery novels in the series ''The Mommy-Track Mysteries'' and four other novels. She has also written autobi ...
-- "Darling I Like You That Way"
References
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External links
Official website
2007 non-fiction books
Essay anthologies
American anthologies
Gay non-fiction books
2000s LGBT literature
LGBT literature in the United States
2007 anthologies
LGBT anthologies
2007 LGBT-related literary works