Male-perspective bisexual: Eddie Perry finds Mina, Nevada, a "nowhere" grease spot on the road between Las Vegas and Reno, and especially the out-of-town Lighthouse strip and sex club, as a place where sex with anyone becomes a needed escape mechanism.
Brad is a respectable forty-year-old banker in the circus wintering town of Peru, Indiana, but he has a hankering for fourteen-year-old boys. He's working, in postwar 1949, on a scheme to "adopt," with fake papers, one of three boys he covers from a German male brothel, when, in Peru, he happens to come onto a knife-thrower's assistant, fourteen-year-old Alfonso, who has tried to drown himself in the Wabash River.
The somewhat sparsely related actions of Satellite, Chris, Mike and "I". Four boys who meet at a club, and then things, for the first time, go on from there. I'm not sure what this story is really all about, but if you work it out, could you let me know?
Desi -my old-man's self- in his far-away-house takes up a friend of his niece when she needs a secret hideaway. The build-up of sexual tension between old man and visitor begins to show. Indeed not the intention?
Fascinated by the playwright, Tennessee Williams, and determined to follow in his footsteps, fourteen-year-old Hollywood actor Joey Harris wins the role of Tom in a Christmas of 1954 Pasadena Theatre children's production of "The Glass Menagerie." To get the role Joey has to lay down for his agent and for the production's director, who claims he can nurture Joey as much as he did Tennessee Williams. Joey recognizes what is needed to make it in Hollywood.