ARTICLES & FICTION
18 "Angel in a Jockstrap"
by George Hillarde
26 "Backstage with Ann-Margret"
by Robert W. Richards
30 "Taking Your Lover Home for Christmas"
by Charles Jurrist
58 "J.W. King: First Interview"
by Robert W. Richards
66 "Christmas Entertaining"
by Ron Horton VISUALS
9 "Golden Boy '83"
by J. Brian
21 "Portrait of an Artist"
by City Boy Studios
33 "The Body Electric"
by Phil Flashe
40 "Video Games"
by Romeo
49 "Mirror Image"
by Jay Kay
73 "Le Voyeur"
from PM Productions MONTHLY FEATURES
4 Stallion Quickies
14 Roundup (Film, Books, Music, Theatre)
46 Our Gay Heritage: The Gay Engagement Calendar
54 Letters to Casey
78 Stallion Contacts Editorial
In looking back over this, the first holiday issue of Stallion, / have noticed
(quite after the fact) that the three articles devoted to the Christmas season
are all preoccupied, in one way or another, with the problem of loneliness.
"Taking Your Lover Home for Christmas" (page 30) explores the crises
that arise when you don't. "Christmas Entertaining" (page 66) offers
alternatives to spending the Big Day by yourself. And the fiction piece, "Angel
in a Jockstrap," (page 18) suggests yet another solution to alleviating
season solitude.
Though unintentional, I suspect tha this is more than mere coincidence —loneliness
is an all too familiar bedfello to most homosexuals, and its presence is most
keenly felt at this festive season of the year when most celebrants turn their
attention to family, and to the traditions that have been part of their lives
as long as they can remember.
Since an inordinate number of gays are estranged from the generation before
them, and since in most cases there is no future generation growing up behind
them, it becomes a matter o' considerable importance to look sideways —
and to re-examine and perhaps redefine the meaning of the word family.
Sociologists have already begun to note alternatives to the "nuclea family."
So, it seems to me, shoul• most homosexuals. In the absence o particularly
strong and enduring bloo, ties, we tend to place incredibly high store in friendships.
The men an. woman we call our friends are, in mos cases, our family —
our nearest, ou dearest, our loved ones.
In this one respect, then, we are the most fortunate of men — for we have
chosen our families, not accepted them out of a sense of obligation, proximity,
or societal pressures. With this in mind, we hope that you will look in a new
way at that oldest of phrases: We wish you and yours the best of holidays and
the highest of hopes for the coming year.
Jerry Douglas
Editor
