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Freddy's dance card is filled with partners who twirl him around, step on his toes, and sometimes break his heart. In "Family Album," a six-year-old Freddy unknowingly unearths the source of his mother's hidden despair; twenty years later, she reaches through her drunken haze to comfort her son against the fear of AIDS. In "Cigarettes," Freddy does some dirty dancing, stealing cigarettes for the bad boy next door in exchange for lessons on lust. "Tears of Two" finds Freddy grown-up and his father grown old, ...
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Freddy's dance card is filled with partners who twirl him around, step on his toes, and sometimes break his heart. In "Family Album," a six-year-old Freddy unknowingly unearths the source of his mother's hidden despair; twenty years later, she reaches through her drunken haze to comfort her son against the fear of AIDS. In "Cigarettes," Freddy does some dirty dancing, stealing cigarettes for the bad boy next door in exchange for lessons on lust. "Tears of Two" finds Freddy grown-up and his father grown old, revealing a tender heart beneath his father's lawyerly shell. In "Red Light" and "Life Line," Freddy takes his chances with dangerous women in order to feel more like a man.
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New York journalist, short-story writer and actor Scanlan makes an auspicious debut with these 14 connected stories, which deftly blend humor, tenderness and tragedy to form an incisive portrait of a gay male. Freddy, the youngest of five kids, exhibits clear sexual signals early on: in ``Family Portrait'' (set in 1965), the six-year-old has already amassed more than 20 Broadway and movie albums (favoring Julie Andrews) and chooses an outfit for his doll as he and his mother fly to visit the grandparents. (In one of Scanlan's subtle references, readers realize that Granddaddy apparently molested Freddy's mother when she was a girl.) At 11, Freddy learns about smoking (``Cigarettes'') from the knowledgeable teenaged boy next door, who rouses the youngster's sexual longings. Eventually, Freddy pursues his dream-he leaves the family home in Washington, D.C., and (rather too easily) becomes a TV actor in New York. Now 30-ish, Freddy branches out to Broadway; a boyfriend dies of AIDS; a new relationship is tentatively begun (at which point the prospective partner poses the eponymous query). Scanlan sensitively explores themes of parental anxieties (father is a stolid lawyer, mother a lush whose benders cause her to become literally lost), sibling relations and interpersonal dependence. (Sept.)
Charles Harmon
Scanlan's humorous novel tells the story of Freddy from boyhood in the burbs to middle-aged gay manhood in the Big Apple. There is little new in the story line (here are more identification with mother rather than father, fascination with fashion, female friends, and HIV anxiety), but Scanlan's writing is fresh and witty. So is Freddy, who goes into business with Claire, makes a big name for himself as a comic in the big city, finds love but loses his lover to AIDS, and carries on with grief and hope. Claire and Freddy's friend Bebe, with their different brands of madness, help keep the story from ever getting dull as Claire steals toilet paper from restrooms and Bebe has wild adventures in Guatemala, New Orleans, and New York. There is no pretense that this is socially serious fiction, which helps it succeed as light, refreshing reading.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781555832872
  • Publisher: Alyson Publications
  • Publication date: 9/28/1995
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 207
  • Product dimensions: 5.79 (w) x 8.72 (h) x 0.88 (d)

Table of Contents

Family Album 9
Cigarettes 24
Gold 40
Banking Hours 52
Red Light 68
The Clutch 93
Fallingwater 111
L'Attrape de Coeur 127
Matinee 143
Tears of Two 151
Tattoo 165
Does Freddy Dance 183
Life Line 189
In Anne Frank's House 205
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  • Posted April 16, 2011

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    These are stories about family, jobs, friends, and lovers from a one gay man's photo album...

    Does Freddy Dance? by Dirk Scanlan<br/><br/>A group of short stories that deal with common gay life in 1995. in "Family Album," a six year old Freddy reveals the source of his mother hidden despair; twenty years later she reaches through her alcoholism to confort her son against the fear of HIV/AIDS.<br/><br/>In "Cigarettes," Freddy does some dirty dancing, stealing cigarettes for the bad boy next door in exchange for lessons in lust. <br/><br/>In "Tears for Two," Freddy is grown up and his father is old, revealing a tender heart beneath his father lawyerly shell. <br/><br/>And in "Red Light" and "Life Line," Freddy takes his chances with dangerous women in order to feel like a man. <br/><br/>These are stories about family, jobs, friends, and lovers from a one gay man's photo album...

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