Download e-book for iPad: The Closet Diaries: Alex Prestigard's Quest For Gay Romance by James Erwin Paul,James Kuchta,Paul Freet

The Closet Diaries is the tale of 3 males who met in university the place they turned in detail and sexually concerned, and follows them in the course of the a number of phases in their lives, careers, marriages and deaths. alongside the way in which the historical past of the homosexual flow is highlighted in novelistic shape, from the pre Stonewall days while males have been overwhelmed and imprisoned for socializing with their very own variety, during the freedom of the sexual revolution within the LGBTQ neighborhood, as much as and during the scourge of AIDS. after which close to the top of the ebook we input a extra unfastened and open time the place comparable intercourse marriage turns into a correct and a felony step forward.
one of many males, Alex Prestegard Sr., married and had 3 sons. The older son, Alex Jr. is a physician and is given the duty of satisfying his father’s dying mattress want of burning his diaries that he has locked away in a trunk in his closet. Alex Jr., upon discovering and getting down to burn the diaries, makes a decision as an alternative to learn them, and enters a global of lengthy hidden secrets and techniques the place he unearths the reality approximately his mother’s dying and his father’s sexuality. the radical then turns into multi-dimensional, in that there are diary entries, scenes from the prior and of the current, as Alex Jr. reads the diaries, later burns them, and consists of out the duty of promoting the home the place his father lived and he grew up.
In the top, Alex Jr. and his lover Steven themselves face the final word selection of whether or not they should still marry or no longer. through the means of Alex Jr.’s interpreting the diaries and getting ready the home on the market, the 2 of them separate after a chain of disagreements over very own rules of what a courting could be. yet they're reunited in the course of the ultimate scenes after Alex Jr. involves the conclusion that he doesn’t are looking to spend the remainder of his lifestyles as his father had performed, sour and alone.