GB-119 Up on the Floor
Up on the Floor
Golden Boy Books
GB-119
Chad Stuart
$2.50
FOREWORD
There was a time in the not too distant past when everyone seemed to “know” what and who a homosexual was. He was an effeminate, limp-wristed, lispy-voiced male who wasn’t good at athletics and would eventually choose dress designing, hair-styling, interior decorating, or maybe acting as his career.
Recently, however, amid a surge of gay awareness, these old myths are finally being exploded. Gays are not the old stereotype, nor—for that matter—have they ever been. They are people, like everyone else, who differ only in what they do in the bedroom. They certainly can’t be singled out in a crowd by an distinguishing physical characteristics. They can be found on the sports field, in government, on the battlefield, like any of their heterosexual counterparts.
Says Eda J. LeShan in Sex and Your Teenager: “A newer approach to homosexuality would interest itself not in the fact of homosexuality alone, but in its place in the life of a particular human being—and the range is just as wide as it would be with heterosexuals—from frightened, destructive, miserable people, who have never found themselves, to people who live creatively, constructively, and in mature and responsible love relationships.”
The following novel is about people. People involved in the sports world. And people who are involved in political movements. It is a story of people who are trapped by circumstances. And of people who make those circumstances happen. In short, it is a story of people who are like any number of other ordinary people found in the world today. That they are gay is somehow inconsequential, except in that their homosexuality does allow for certain sexual interaction.
That the story is also of people teetering on the brink of violence—of people who have, in fact, been a part of past violence—is not so indicative of a gay lifestyle as it is indicative of the world in general. For we live in violent times; and, whether we be gay or straight, we must merely somehow come to grips with the world around us—for better or for worse- just as the characters in the following novel are forced to do.
Up On The Floor is not a gay novel, per se, but is rather a story in which homosexual men do play the key roles. That the murder, kidnapping, and raping is gay-oriented does not in any way mean that, under slightly different circumstances, it couldn’t have all, just as easily, taken place with heterosexual players.
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