ABOUT THIS BOOK

From large cities to rural communities, gay men have long been impassioned pioneers as keepers of culture: rescuing and restoring decrepit buildings, revitalizing blighted neighborhoods, saving artifacts and documents of historical significance. A Passion to Preserve explores this authentic and complex dimension of gay men’s lives by profiling early and contemporary preservationists from throughout the United States, highlighting contributions to the larger culture that gays are exceptionally inclined to make.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Will Fellows is the author of Farm Boys, which was honored as a best book of 1996 by Esquire Magazine and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 1997. He lives in Milwaukee.

REVIEWS

“Compelling . . . stories and first-person accounts from gay men across the country . . . provide a colorful picture of a landscape that has not really been painted until now.”—The Advocate

“A concept at once original and yet so obvious it is surprising that no one has attempted it before.”—Library Journal

“A rich and detailed examination of an important and heretofore neglected aspect of our urban heritage.”—Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Contents
Preface 000
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Charlotte and Me: Preservation-Minded from Childhood 3
In Search of Gay Preservationists 000
What These Gay Men's Lives Reveal 000
Part 1. Saving Old New England 000
	Mark Doty 000
	Don Leavitt 000
	Mark Sammons 000
Part 2. Design-Minded in the Mid-Atlantic States 000
	Ken Lustbader 000
	James Nocito 000
	Dwight Young 000
	Greg Kinsman 000
Part 3. To the Rescue in the Atlantic South 000
	Allan Gurganus 000
	Myrick Howard 000
	John Anders 000
	Robert Barker 000
	Cranford Sutton 000
Part 4. Domophiles Out West 000
	Jay Yost 000
	Ken Miller 000
	Gilbert Millikan and David Richards 000
	Richard Jost and Charles Fuchs 000
Part 5. California Conservative 000
	Richard Reutlinger 000
	Gerry Takano 000
	Jeffrey Samudio 000
	Jim Wilke 000
Part 6. Generations of Gentlemen Keep Cooksville, Wisconsin 000
	William Wartmann 000
	Al Garland 000
	Larry Reed 000
Part 7. Singular Preservationists in the Midwest 000
	Dana Duppler 000
	Joe Johnson and Ron Markwell 000
	Robert Seger 000
Part 8. Cherishing Old New Orleans and Louisiana 000
	Curt Greska 000
	Lloyd Sensat 000
	Randy Plaisance 000
Toward a Larger View of Gay Men 000
Conclusion 000
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Acknowledgments 000
Notes 000




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Gay men United States Biography, Cultural property Protection United States

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