Love Letters from a Friend

"I am frankly quite stunned that I'm writing this, for a number of reasons which will become evident shortly."

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Love Letters from a Friend is a testimonial to the iconic gay life of San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The letters eloquently express what it was like for one person - George - to encounter that city's exuberance and its power to transform. In candid observations, he details a remarkable place, at a remarkable moment in time, that is now gone forever. His letters belong to an historical era that still resonates in the US, and around the world, as an act of collective bravery.

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The letters are also an homage to the uniqueness of George's mind and spirit. They chronicle the perceptions of an extraordinary, talented individual with a profound desire to communicate what he feels. He recounts his yearning to connect with people, in the midst of his deep frustrations and yet powerful love for others. Written on thick, vellum paper in fine-point calligraphy, George's elegant words and sentences exist as a testament to the power of friendship over time, place, and personal tribulations, and a reverence for the vanished art of letter writing.

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TO BEGIN READING CLICK ON 1977 AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE.