Who�� Yer Daddy? offers readers of gay male literature a keen and engaging journey. In this anthology, thirty-nine gay authors discuss individuals who have influenced them��heir
inspirational ��addies.��The essayists include fiction writers, poets, and performance artists, both honored masters of contemporary literature and those just beginning to blaze their own
trails. They find their artistic ancestry among not only literary icons��alt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Andr矇 Gide, Frank O��ara, James Baldwin, Edmund White��ut also a roster of figures whose
creative territories are startlingly wide and vital, from Botticelli to Bette Midler to Captain Kirk.
�� �Some writers chronicle an entire tribal council of mentors; others describe a transformative encounter with a particular individual, including teachers and friends whose guidance or
example cracked open their artistic selves. Perhaps most moving are the handful of writers who answered the question literally, writing intimately of their own fathers and their literary
inheritance. This rich volume presents intriguing insights into the contemporary gay literary aesthetic.
