WHITE, Edmund
The Loves of My Life. A Sex Memoir

I’m at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them – for me it would be thousands of sex partners.

The 85-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys of the 50s Midwest, with women as a young man trying to be straight, the sex he’s paid for and been paid for, sex during the Stonewall and HIV eras, and in the age of the apps. Through tales of transactional sex, mutual admiration, open relationships, domination, submission, love, and loss, he paints an indelible portrait of queer history in America and abroad in a way only someone who has lived through it can. [publishers’ note]

“In frank and hilarious style, the author recounts the significant encounters that helped make him who he is.”
—The Guardian

Published by Bloomsbury, 2024
Sex / Memoirs / Queer Culture