ABSTRACT

This is a story about how two gay men of very different backgrounds and with no experience in the gay world have managed to love each other and have a monogamous relationship for seventeen years. Grover Lawance Harrell is an African American from the South, tall and muscular and dark; and I (Tracy Charles Perreault), am a white of French-Canadian and English extraction from the North, olive-skinned and with a small swimmer's frame. The two of us met when we were twenty-one years old. It was our good fortune that we were able to come together first as friends.