"An uncensored road trip through gay American life in the early
sixties "Jack Nichols is now known as a founding father of the gay
and lesbian liberation movement, editor of GAY (the first gay
weekly newspaper), co-founder of the Mattachine Societies of
Washington, DC, and Florida, and a warrior who broke ground for gay
equality. In his early twenties, however, he was dedicated to
romance, ardor, and wanderlust-living the life of a gypsy and
making love with abandon. "MORE EXCITING THAN THE WILDEST FICTION.
. . . Jack takes his reader on the road with him (Jack often
hitchhiking in only T-shirt and jeans) where he encounters, beds
down (and sometimes hustles) dozens of attractive 'numbers' who
come his way.""- Donn Teal, Author of The Gay Militants: 1971 &
1994""This might be called Jack Nichols' version of Kerouac's beat
classic "On the Road." With a variety of companions, and with
little money in his pocket, in the early 60s, he drove, hitchhiked,
rode buses, and even walked for a couple of long stretches from
Washington, DC, to New York and then through West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. He recalls in
considerable detail a variety of individuals with whom he had
erotic encounters. The title The Tomcat Chronicles is fully
descriptive.""- Vern L. Bullough, PhD, RN, Editor of Before
Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical
Context""Jack Nichols, the gay liberation pioneer, has been a
lifelong friend who helped to illuminate my concept of homophobia.
Oscar Wilde believed one's life should be a work of art. Jack's
life, which has always combined courage, social awareness and
sexual passion, is certainly such a work.""- George Weinberg, PhD,
Author of Society and the Healthy Homosexual and 13 other books
(the psychotherapist credited with coining the term
homophobia)""THE VIVID DETAIL AND GRACEFUL PROSE THAT CHARACTERIZE
THE WRITING OF JACK NICHOLS open a window into a time long before
gay men appeared weekly on tv or before anti-sodomy laws had been
banned.""- Rodger Streitmatter, PhD, Author of Unspeakable: The
Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America""The Tomcat Chronicles
is a gay pioneer's version of "City of Night."- James T. Sears,
PhD, Author of Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space
in the Stonewall South; Editor of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian
Issues in Education (from the Foreword)"
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