A book written out of rage, unnerving, thought provoking.” -Los Angeles Times Praise for John Rechy “Rechy shows great comic and tragic talent. An intense, personal, and courageous document. Using the language and techniques of film, Rechy deftly intercuts the despairing, joyful, and defiant confessions of a male hustler with the “chorus” of his own subversive reflections on sexual identity and sexual politics, and with stark documentary, reports of the violence our society directs against homosexuals-“the only minority against whose existence there are laws.” “An intelligent, persuasive and, in its way, heartbreaking manifesto.” -The New York Times “A jolting book. In this angry, eloquent outcry against the oppression of homosexuals, the author of the classic City of Night gives “an explosive non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground” of Los Angeles in the 1970s-the “battlefield” of the sexual outlaw. Summary From the award-winning writer, “a passionate manifesto for gay rights by an author who openly and unapologetically identifies himself as a participant” (People). The book opens to view a complicated human being, beset by contradictions, some of which he is aware of, who is living at an extreme compounded of numbness and feeling.READ The Sexual Outlaw - A Documentary John Rechy He argues on behalf of that minority and also against the sado-masochistic trend within the homosexual world, which he believes represents self-hatred caused by heterosexual oppression. To Rechy, casual sex in the streets is a revolutionary act expressing the rage of a persecuted minority. This portrait of a hustler as existential outlaw-and narcissist-is a development of the one Rechy gave in City of the Aright, more complex (and raw) this time and influenced by the rise of the gay liberation movement.
Promiscuity is essential to his psychological purposes love is radically eliminated. When he is in the mood, he also has sex without charge with men he finds attractive.
The principal element in Rechy's nonfiction documentary is a series of explicit homosexual encounters in Los Angeles by the author's persona ""Jim."" He is a hustler, who needs the payment he gets to prove to himself that he is desirable.
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