September 1986

Gay Peoples Chronicle

LIFE AT THE CLOSET DOOR

BOOK REVIEWS

The Lions' Den, by Larry Howare. Alyson Publica-

tions. $7.95.

Because this is not a novel of suspense, it's plot --which is handled very nicely--need not be kept secret. Daniel Neuhaus, a linguist, teaches English at a college in northern California. Not particularly

happy there but very aware of the scarcity academic positions, he working toward tenure.

much of

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Gay but closeted, he is not having much sex and fails to understand the overtures of a former lover who recently lost his teaching position at the college.

Neuhaus is disturbed by the growing attraction he feels toward Matthew Reid, a student who is the college's star swimmer. Reid, who is aware of his own gayness but

has done little about it, is taking a course from Neuhaus because he suspects he might be gay and finds him attractive. The student eventually same bed in a motel room engineers their sharing the pair become lovers. during a convention.

The

Reid's parents have enough power to see that Neuhaus is fired, on moral grounds. But all ends happily. Teacher and student move to a college in Oregon where both are happier and can be openNeuhaus\s former ly gay. lover also finds love there. And Neuhaus' lesbian colleague responds to an expression of homophobia by Coming out. This is a very pleasant love story. It's also an explicitly gay gay love story in which leaving the closet goes along with finding love.

COME ON GIRLS, CAN'T WE TALK THIS OVER?

NO! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME GO!

I WON'T GO ! I REFUSE/

Professor Daniel Neuhaus has a thing or two to learn about love. And Matthew, one of his more precocious students, is ready to start the lessons. But is Daniel ready to risk everything-his career and his future-in the name of that love?

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OBY BRADY 1986

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OH. BE QUIET LARRY, EVERYBODY GOES EVENTUALLY!

WHAT ON EARTH IS

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IT'S NOTHING TO WORRY ABCUT. CHRIS... IT'S LARRY'S BURTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY AND WE'RE TAKING HIM TO HIS FIRST PIANO BAR!

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