Gay Choices

Friendship, Love & Tragedy

As a West Virginia-based author and poet, RICHARD PODNAR has self-published several books dealing with issues of interest to the LGBTQ community, especially those with historical impact. He often feels that not enough is written nowadays about what the impact of growing up as a gay young man in the United States during the challenging decades of the 20th century entailed. For those who were alive, it was a turbulent time in our nation and the world. To those who were not around, much can be learned from the experience of your elders.

In GAY CHOICES, the author jumps into the 1970's and depicts the lives of young gay male adults in a large Midwestern city. You will learn how they work, play, cope with problems and have the same feelings and emotions as their straight counterparts, albeit with a marked difference: they are forced to live life on the edge and make choices, good and bad, which lead them down all sorts of convoluted paths in a pre-AIDS era.