Titanic: The Untold Tale of Gay Passengers and Crew by Jack Fritscher ISBN 9781890834609, 1890834602 instant download

Titanic: The Untold Tale of Gay Passengers and Crew by Jack Fritscher ISBN 9781890834609, 1890834602 instant download

On a night so clear that passengers could see stars reflecting on a sea smooth as a mirror, TITANIC, the grandest ship in the whole wide world, broke in two, reared up high as a skyscraper, lights burning brilliantly, and sank into the depths of archetypal myth. That night on that sea, 2200 people, including 400 gay passengers and crew, watched TITANIC go down. Only 700 of those thousands were in lifeboats. Fifteen hundred died around them. The story telling began...

Breaking the straight trance of received TITANIC history, San Francisco author Jack Fritscher reclaims gay history by writing a pitch-perfect sex epic of gay survival. TITANIC “outs” the forbidden gay love story of the world’s most famous cruise, featuring the Unsinkable Molly Brown, the posh lovers Michael Whitney and Edward Wedding, and the working crew including the rugged Balkan Stoker, the redheaded Royal Purser Felix Jones, and the ship’s second carpenter Michael Brice and Third Officer Sam Maxwell.

Fritscher’s fast-paced plot speeds along like a film. It has comic dialogue, high-drama queens, extremely able seamen, class-conscious sex, and the suspense of who will survive this story that begins like a musical comedy and ends with a sinking feeling. Fritscher looks through the prism of the TITANIC microcosm to dramatize hidden gay history. It’s an historical peek into how early twentieth-century gay folk, learning to save their own lives, helped invent modern homosexual identity, diversity, and politics.