Real Men Ride Horses (GMP Classics Book 3)

The Gay Men's Press bestseller from the nineties, now reprinted in electronic form. Before Brokeback Mountain broke your heart, this collection told the sordid truth of the wild west, in history, reportage and plain gossip, journalism posing as fiction. Cowboys come clean, Indians tell all, and the author as voyeur writes down the stories. Ken Shakin wanders around the pink desert, where the heat is so thick not only the animals get naked, and an America is revealed, stripped to the waist.

"Set in the New Mexican desert, Shakin's book is a collection of startlingly vivid, often witty stories, many informed by a strong sense of the history of the area and the cultural differences of those who live there, as well as their sexual and gender variations."
—glbtq.com, the Encylopedia of GLBTQ Culture

“Sexy and in-your-face with a vengeance, these stories dig through the entrails of life in a sensual desert.”
—David Fernbach, founder of Gay Men’s Press