Love in other lifetimes / Anna David -- Fag hags : the laughter, the tears, the Maribou / Simon Doonan -- Life before gays / Elizabeth Spiers -- The collectors / K.M. Soehnlein -- Get this / Cindy Chupack -- Sitting in the dark with my mother / Zach Udko -- Like father, like daughter / Abigail Garner -- The good girls / David Levithan -- My fairy godfathers / Cecil Castellucci -- Donnie and Marie don't get married / Brian Sloan -- A Harvard (fag) hag-iography / Alexandra Jacobs -- My best girlfriend / James Lecesne -- Shop girls / Karen Robinovitz -- Lay it all down / Edwin John Wintle -- The long trip home / Zakiyyah Alexander -- Shutterspeed / Bennett Madison -- Super couple / Sarah Kate Levy -- Man's best friend / David Ebershoff -- Marriage material / Wendy Mass -- Welcome to my dollhouse / Michael Musto -- Everything I always wanted to know about sex (and life) I learned from gay men / Stacey Ballis -- Side by side (by side) / Philip Himberg -- The gang's all here / Melissa de la Cruz -- Future perfect / Tom Dolby -- My dinners with Tom / Gigi Levangie Grazer -- In praise of women / Andrew Solomon -- That unsettling feeling / Mike Albo -- Darling, I like you that way / Ayelet Waldman.