He is candid in describing his forty years as a sexually active gay man when San Francisco had a reputation for the best gay sex in the country. Along the way, we're taken to gay bars and bathhouses of the period that once dominated the nighttime scene as places where gay men could explore and discover pleasures as never before. In I Throw Like a Girl, writer and activist Chuck Forester chronicles his life-changing journey from a lonely and suppressed gay boy in 1950s Wisconsin to his eye-popping 1971 arrival in San Fracisco's Castro, where he finds community and empowerment to live his life as a proud, out gay man for the first time.
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