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Welcome
to my
Website!
I hope you enjoy your stay. You'll find a
biog here, as well as excerpts from my memoir and upcomig novels.
I'll share a few of my poems, an essay or two, and a couple of short
stories. All free!

You're welcome to reprint any of the written word, as long as you
give me credit with a link to this website:
www.galechesterwhittington.com

This site will serve as an outlet for my hilarious rants, via the blog I
call ". . .
Somebody Needs to Say It!" Click the title to check it out.
To navigate my website, choose from  options to the left or below:
My books: Click each title for an excerpt and short synopsis.
The Happy Campers (a novel)
True Chameleon (a novel)
Beyond Normal: The Birth of Gay Pride (a memoir)
My Essays: Click to View
Uppity Queers
Somebody Needs to Say It Blog
Gambling


To understand the quality of my writing, you should know that my idols are Tennessee
Williams, William Goldman, and Marc Cherry.
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link to Coffee Time Romance review of Happy Campers
Gale Chester Whittington, Gay Author
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"I walked out of
Daylight Donuts to
see the price of gas
at $2.49 a gallon all
over town. The
thought of what
this rip-off
is going to do
to the economy
scared the
Daylights
out of me!"
(8-16-05
Blog
Archives 7)
"You can only fit
so many martyrs
in a body bag
before it rips
and falls
apart."
--Gale
Chester Whittington
 
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SOOTH YOUR
SOUL!

Visit the author's
photo website for
exquisite pics and tips
on freshwater
aquariums, guppies,
flowers, & ponds.

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2003 photo of Gale Chester Whittington
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April Remembered Ice Angels Camillia photo by Gale Chester Whittington
SOOTH YOUR SOUL
link to FreeFishCareTips.com
My triumphant
memoir,
BEYOND
NORMAL: The Birth
of Gay Pride
(proof
that, indeed, it
does
get better) is now
available as an
iBook, a paperback
or an eBook, with
over 45 vintage
images! Click
here
to purchase

BEYOND
NORMAL:
The Birth of Gay
Pride.
Love is not only blind; it's also deaf and dumb.
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Listen to the archived Gale Chester Whittingon
Stonewall Live Blog Talk Radio
interview from
February 3, 2011, about his ground-breaking memoir,
BEYOND NORMAL: The Birth of Gay Pride!
Here's a direct link to the interview:
http://tinyurl.com/6eoqg82
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UPDATE: Excellent news! My memoir BEYOND
NORMAL: The Birth of Gay Pride
has been named as
a finalist for the prestigious 23rd Annual Lambda
Literary Awards!
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/2011-finalists/
Results in New York City on May 26, 2011:
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/

And check it out! The San Francisco Examiner
recommended my book in their Sunday Edition on
January 16, 2011!
"Something to read
BEYOND NORMAL
By Gale Chester Whittington ($17.95)
Subtitled '
The Birth of Gay Pride,' the memoir by an
activist and journalist brings to light details of the
militant, pre-Stonewall gay liberation movement in
San Francisco in 1969."