In his first novel, The Boys in the Brownstone, screenwriter and playwright Kevin Scott writes a comedy of manners about a group of gay men who don't fit in anywhere except a bar they call home. A "gentleman's bar" on the affluent Upper East Side of New York, the Brownstone is a quaint oasis of Chippendale and Sondheim in a city of gym rats and club kids. But the boys in the brownstone aren't gentlemen and they certainly aren't quaint. Scott's wild parade of characters includes a museum curator who can't resist a handsome young pianist whose previous boyfriends have all committed suicide; an assistant pastor who steals from a dying monsignor to finance his lover's landscape gardening business; an African-American blue blood who tires of the "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy his well-bred parents try to enforce; and a soon-to-be-married soap opera writer who panics when his sanctimonious father defies his congregation to perform the gay wedding at his own church. There doesn't seem to be anywhere these characters can just be themselves - except at the Brownstone.

The Boys in the Brownstone

Scott, Kevin, 1952-

Crossings Christian Marketing, Incorporated

Haworth Social Work Practice Press, The

Haworth Press, Incorporated, The

GuildAmerica Books

Doubleday Direct

United States, United States of America

Binghampton, NY, 2005

Book Club, 2005

1, 2005-04-21

1, PS, 2005

A "gentlemen's bar" on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the Brownstone is a quaint oasis of Chippendale and Sondheim in a wasteland of chrome and club kids. But the boys in the Brownstone aren't all gentlemen. And their lives are anything but quaint. This collection of witty, affectionate--and disturbing--tales of the city weaves through a colorful assortment of characters linked together in the most surprising ways. These men may be hot, funny, and fashionable but are also real men with jobs, families, and fears. They deal with the issues of gay marriage, gays in the priesthood, AIDS, diversity, narcissism, consumerism, circuit parties, and everything else that comes with the territory. Join them at the Brownstone as they gather together--some for the first time, others for the last--on the night before Christmas Eve in this novel that's not about lifestyles, just lives with plenty of style.--From publisher description.

Alive and kicking with the ups and downs of the real world where gay men may be hot, funny, and fahionable but are also real men with jobs, families, and fears. With humor, heart, and a little bit of courage, they deal with the issues of gay marriage, gays in the priesthood, AIDS, diversity, narcissism and lots more.

Gay melodrama novel. Many of the divisive issues of the times are reflected in the lives of several gay men whose different backgrounds intersect at the Brownstone, a gay bar on the Upper East side of Manhattan

2023-06-28