Gay Literature
Gay literature covers many perspectives, but focuses most upon love between men. Gay Literature imitates life and in real life love between men is ordinary for millions of men. Kabuki in a G-String brings gay literature to where writers like David Leavitt, Christopher Bram and others have taken it – and to where Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, David Halperin, Audre Lorde, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Halberstam and others have argued it should be, central to the lives of all of us. About this genre, Yale Professor Marianne LaFrance says, "Now we're asking not just “What causes homosexuality?” but also “What causes heterosexuality?” and “Why is sexuality so central in some people's perspective?”
Kabuki in a G-String, has Chad Newsome, leave West Texas in his youth. He must decide whether to stay in Paris with his French Moroccan partner or return to Lubbock. To be gay in Paris is not the same as being gay in Lubbock, Texas. As Chad’s cousin Roberta Martin discovers in her quest to bring her cousin home, much of what she has been taught about gay men and their lifestyles dissolves amid the beauty and urban sophistication of Paris. Gay literature may change perceptions, as this novel does, but also promotes love between men as ordinary – a way of achieving and maintaining intimacy.
Like gay literature before it, this novel captures the reader’s attention. It places characters in the middle of modern, open, exciting Paris and America’s disheartening culture wars.
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