Bøger af Peter Melillo

Gus and Bob, met fighting in one of the United States' open-ended wars, fell in love, and sanctified their passion with marriage. Afterfive years working in New York City, they realized a dream, and bought a year-round, weekend country house. Just as they settled into urbandecompression on tranquil rural weekends, the fates intervened to made them accidental parents.Through circumstances beyond anyone's control, sixteen-year-old Joey Hall, who had been fighting homelessness since birth, came tolive in Bob and Gus's second home. A year later, due to gun violence, fifteen-year-old, transsexual Frances McDermott became a homelessorphan. The gay married men refused to say no to an additional foster teenager to parent.Counterpoint, running in the background throughout this book is home and homelessness. While doing research for changing apartments, Frances learns the history of modern homelessness and the contribution gentrification made to it. Accidental Parents is a look atcontemporary gay family life and how we live today.

From the author of Fairyswatter comes Improbable, Peter Mellilo's follow up collection of gay short stories. At once intimate, heartfelt, candid, and bracing, Improbable is a penetrating look at present day gay life among friends, lovers, and family.

Fairy Swatter is a collection of six short gay fictions with murder often added to the mix. The stories range from contemporary settings about where we live now to historical events from the past that were often ignored or marginalized by the dominant society. Bold and outspoken the book depicts gay life in candid and unsparing terms.