Publisher's Weekly, November 10, 1997:

Gay Fairy & Folk Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men
Peter Cashorali. Faber & Faber. $19.95
(160p) ISBN 0-571-19926-7

Los Angeles author and performer Cashorali follows up his Fairy Tales with this collection of 13 fables adapted to speak to contemporary gay men. If the book's premise seems odd (do we really need a "Jack and the Penis"?), Cashorali makes us take a second look. Here are the Princes Charming and Fairy "Godmothers" kept so vigilantly out of the nursery—ready to flesh out, in a "normal" vocabulary, childhood fantasies usually treated as abnormal. Cashorali's tales assume the naturalness of men loving other men, and he treats even the most painful difficulties of gay life with delicacy, tact, humor and empathy. Not everyone will be convinced, however....

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