Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders places us close to the heart of a budding gay man throughout his cautious yet adventurous sexual awakening in the post-war 1950s. While on a drive around the politically turbulent Mediterranean Sea, Will Carr traverses an era of drab suits hung over sexual beings. Examining gender definition at new peaks, Will ultimately arrives at the truth about his own sexual and spiritual being. Throughout his journey, Will asks the most intimate questions a man can pose to himself. Sometimes fearfully, often courageously, and always honestly, Will is determined to achieve understanding and compassion for his sexual, spiritual, and emotional self. As readers traveling along with Will, we too benefit from this profound and beautiful road trip though mind, place, and time.

"Will Carr's automobile journey around the Mediterranean Sea in 1953 bristles with relevance over fifty years later. Historically we witness the same smoldering tensions over Palestine that divides Arabs and Jews today. Personally it's a coming-out saga for someone who not only discovers a world of ambiguous sexuality but that he, too, is not one to limit himself. The sexual adventures of the na ve, twenty-seven-year-old with men of several different nationalities dramatize the conflicts during the terrors of the McCarthy era." -James Brogan, Professor of Gay Studies, San Francisco State University