{"product_id":"sands-of-the-kalahari-dvd-0887090033305","title":"Sands of the Kalahari","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn uncensored road trip through gay American life in the early sixties \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJack 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMORE 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.\u003ci\u003e- Donn Teal, Author of The Gay Militants: 1971 \u0026amp; 1994\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis might be called Jack Nichols' version of Kerouac's beat classic \u003ci\u003eOn the Road.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Vern L. Bullough, PhD, RN, Editor of Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJack 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e- George Weinberg, PhD, Author of Society and the Healthy Homosexual and 13 other books (the psychotherapist credited with coining the term homophobia)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Rodger Streitmatter, PhD, Author of Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Tomcat Chronicles is a gay pioneer's version of \u003ci\u003eCity of Night.\u003cbr\u003e- James T. Sears, PhD, Author of Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South; Editor of the Journal of Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Issues in Education (from the Foreword)\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49707143102737,"sku":"DVDB004YCKJQUVG","price":13.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53417857253649,"sku":"CINB004YCKJQUG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B004YCKJQU.jpg?v=1751193486","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/sands-of-the-kalahari-dvd-0887090033305","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}