Anal Probe

In Anal Probe writer Art Greenwald shares his best of a collected works of non-fiction stories and columns viewed through a gay man's lens. Part autobiographical the Central Pennsylvania native and South Floridian chronicles the people places and situations he's observed and experienced first-hand. Greenwald offers up a mixed bag of high drama humor personality profiles and closet adventures from the 1950's to the present including his own painstaking journey for self-acceptance from small-town USA to his college days at Penn State University to life in gay Fort Lauderdale. The author reveals in searing detail his dance with death in a stripper bar an AIDS survivor overcoming the odds a meth addict's struggle to stay clean a Hurricane that united the high price of friendship a riches to rags account of redemption an immigration indignity and more. His quirky tongue-in-cheek tales lighten the load from his first prostate exam to aging gay gracefully to lampooning the dating game to gay gym rats a lesbian guide to rejection and his rose-colored realization of Florida as the first gay state. Greenwald's provocative and profound opinion pieces tackle taboo topics with candor and without self-censure poking fun at politics the lifestyle and its ancient stereotypes while exposing hypocrisy. A controversial take on killer Andrew Cunanan drag queens a letter to the late Jerry Falwell his laughable attempt to give up sex and an Andy Rooney what makes gay parody both entertains and enlightens. The author also profiles a young gay singer a comic genius a Franciscan Priest who uplifts the lives of individuals with HIV/AIDS unforgettable Charlie Squires figure skater Rudy Galindo a champion for abused and neglected children a security guard transgender activist bar owner and volunteer making a difference.