We Are Gay, Dammit - Softcover

Lagattuta Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798349587221

Verlag: David Lagattuta Jr., 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The job posting said "Couple needed for lifestyle photos. Two hours. Cash." It pays one bill-and costs them a thousand rumors. Timothy, an ex-actor fluent in reading rooms, and Patricia Rourke, a donor-wall name who hates performance, become hired company for the moments that need gentleness: brunches with weaponized small talk, office parties that confuse visibility with kindness, family dinners where "be honest" is a trap. They call it Witness. They carry bandages and better sentences. They leave when a room decides to be cruel. They're read as a couple, but they aren't: Timothy is gay; Patricia is queer; Witness is partnership, not romance. But when their stock-photo faces escape into the city-banks, dentists, a magazine that quotes them without asking-Patricia's family office comes calling to "stabilize the narrative," and the line between neighborly help and spectacle buckles. To keep the work clean, they'll need steady-eyed friends, a few index cards that say I don't accept the premise of your question, and a rule big enough to live under: We are not a brochure. We are a pause. A love letter to Chicago's ordinary heroics, WE ARE GAY, DAMMIT is a luminous novel about boundaries, class, chosen kin, and the quiet labor of protecting one another.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: David Lagattuta Jr.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798349587221
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 110
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