Longtime Companions: Autobiographies of Gay Male Fidelity
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- We're Not Lost, We're Here -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Casting for Couples: The Ones That Got Away -- Enter: Key West! -- Come to the Cabaret -- Then, a Sour Note (with Chorus) -- The Monogamy Issue -- Just One Thing More -- Marry Us -- THE JOINT ACCOUNTS -- The Ballad of Eddie and Scott -- Park Bench to Forever -- Surviving the Cure -- Corroborative Testimony -- Loss of Sharing: The Bereavement Continues -- The Poems -- Your Presence in Absentia -- Arriving at Some End -- Final Acts -- And so to Endure -- Married-with Children -- Okinawa Honeymoon -- Across Boundaries -- Growing Up Apart -- Getting Together -- A Walk on the Wild Side -- The Career-Path Years -- The Moves -- The Queen City -- Lives Long Entwined: Comments (at Forty-Seven Years) on a Committed Relationship -- Life Doesn't Begin at Forty (but It Starts Getting Better) -- The Stanford Start -- Careers and Finances -- Cultural Pursuits in Tandem -- How Many Corners on a Globe? -- Friends and Social Life -- Problems? Well, Al's Had Only One (but It's Been a Pip!) -- The Retirement Project -- Coda -- Update -- Fraternity Brothers -- A Long Road for Soul Mates -- The Rise from Rascals -- Life in the Hollywood Hills -- Life As a Charleston Hustler -- Life Ever Since -- A Bond Strengthened by Grief -- Opposites Attract: Enduring Clashes in Personality, Generation, and Culture -- Together at the Bars -- Dance to the Music -- Prelude -- The Hesitation Waltz -- Grand Pas de Deux -- Fleshdance -- Anniversary Waltz -- The Tea Dance from Hell -- The Court Ball -- The Stagestruck Strut -- The Tropical Two-Step -- The Phoenix Fandango -- The Dance of Death -- Coda -- The Testosterone Tarantella -- Going for the Gold -- Fifty Years Later-The Dinner Party Speech