Includes bibliographical references.

Why "friendship" works and doesn't / Frederick S. Roden -- Willey Street / Jeff Mann -- Time and tide / Marc Vargo -- The grounds on which we met : friendship and the possible / Ed Madden -- Larry, me, and the family / Neil Kaminsky -- Circuitries of friendship : camaraderie and collectivity on the gay dance floor / Vincent A. Lankewish -- A towel and a TV / Michael Thomas II -- More was better : sex with friends / Chris Packard -- The crossing / E. M. Kahn -- The country club / Michael E. Thomas II -- Soul friend / Thomas Lawrence Long -- A string theory of friendship / Jay Quinn -- Not quite there / Felice Picano -- The absence : living everyday life without gay male friends / Eric Aoki -- Friends : when are they necessary? / Jeffrey Dudgeon -- Notes from the apocalypse : a week with Katrina / Marc Vargo -- Subject : friendship / Dan Martin and Michael Biello.

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