{"product_id":"deep-house-the-gayest-love-story-ever-told-9780316545792","title":"Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueerty\u003c\/i\u003e's Spring 2025 LGBTQ+ Books Roundup \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGay Bar\u003c\/i\u003e comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of his dreams -- a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit -- just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast deserts, London fashion shows and Berlin sex clubs, dinner parties, back alleys, East Village hotel rooms, and San Francisco dives. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a \"city of refuge.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With Atherton Lin's inimitable blend of tenderness and wicked humor, \u003ci\u003eDeep House \u003c\/i\u003emoves through the couple's string of rented apartments while unlocking doors to a lineage of gay men who have come before -- smuggling a foreign partner through national checkpoints or going public to stand up for the right to get down in the privacy of their own homes. They include hapless criminals, sexpot bartenders, friars, pirates, government workers who subverted the system, activists who went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the celebrated artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Following \u003ci\u003eGay Bar\u003c\/i\u003e -- called \"a rich tapestry\" by \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e and \"an absolute tour de force\" by Maggie Nelson -- \u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e juxtaposes whispered disclosures of undocumented domesticity with courtroom drama and political stunts to explore myriad forms of intimacy while questioning the mechanisms that legitimize love. \u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a historical kaleidoscope and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a turbulent civil rights battle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Atherton Lin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little Brown and Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316545792","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44138354901129,"sku":"9780316545792","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_1cf88d50-6b55-48b2-8fed-6bf6b1cd33f2.jpg?v=1748399791","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/deep-house-the-gayest-love-story-ever-told-9780316545792","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}