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Article: Preservation-minded: a new book by the best-selling author of Farm Boys makes an interesting connection between gay men and historic preservation.(A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture)(Book Review)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2004
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A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture * Will Fellows * University of Wisconsin Press * $30
When Will Fellows was a young boy he wasn't much interested in typical "boy" activities. Instead, he collected old photographs and spent long hours gleaning family history from his grandmother, and as a teenager he opened his own antiques shop on the family farm in Wisconsin. Like so many gay men, he says, he has always had an interest in preserving old things, a trait that straight men don't seem to share.
Early on in Fellows's book A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture, he compares his life to that of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a ...