The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories

This generous collection includes forty seven stories written between 1945 and the present day, many published here for the first time and all by living writers. Taking the end of the Second World War as a watershed in social and sexual attitudes, it celebrates both the breadth and the rich diversity of gay life in our age, but above all this is a superb collection of writing in which imagination, tenderness, love, vivid characterization and memorable storytelling blossom from the gay experience that underlies them. It is a half century of fiction from many perspectives and from many cultural references, including stories from writers in England, Scotland, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.