| Gale Chester Whittington, Gay Author |
To spite his name, Gale Whittington was
born male February 6, 1948, in Holyoke,
Colorado. His father was a fundamentalist
Nazarene preacher with a Christian radio
program, his mother, a gospel-recording
artist.
After two-years fighting for gay rights
on the streets of San Francisco 1968-1969, (months before the
Stonewall uprising--to be documented in his memoir, BEYOND
NORMAL: The Birth of Gay Pride, when a publisher finally snatches
up the manuscript), Gale worked long, hard hours operating a Denver
pet store/bird breeding facility (the legendary Colorado Seed and Pet,
which he owned for a whopping twenty-eight years.
Two long-term lovers have annoyed the man, one for five years, the
latter for eighteen. Gale drove them both insane and the relationships
ended in “divorce” once they got well and came to their senses.
Subsequently, Gale has been looking for love in some pretty scary
places. Like in prison. Read all about it in his first book, The Happy
Campers (Torquere Press, Nov. 2005-2006), a semi-autobiographical
novel about murder, mystery, and romance in the Texarkana Federal
Prison Camp.
Those who are wondering how a fine upstanding former radical
found himself in prison will find the answer in his paranormal novel,
True Chameleon. Carol Woods, Senior Editor at Timberwolf Press
and contest judge, noted, “This is a story of human frailty and
creative coping.” In the book, an injured lizard is captured and
shipped to a Denver pet shop, owned by a male couple, who begin to
mirror health and mental problems of the chameleon, somewhat like
the Portrait of Dorian Gray, except neither lizard nor man are spared
the downward spiral.
In his formative years, Gale held the title Feature Editor of his high
school newspaper, The Ramrod, for three years in a row. During his
late sixties stint in California, he wrote for underground newspapers,
The Berkeley Barb and The Berkeley Tribe, along with San Francisco’
s Vector magazine. Gale returned to writing full time in the year 2000,
working on novels, short stories, poetry, and his memoirs. He
penned a regular column about fish care in Tulsa’s 2003 MACA Pet
News. The Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc. (OWFI) bestowed four
awards on him April 30, 2005, two of which have "gay/queer" in the
titles. He wishes to thank Tulsa Crossroadswriters critique group for
their invaluable editing assistance.
Gale currently lives on fifteen acres in the Oklahoma woods, where
he writes, floats in a pool, worships the sun, and raises heirloom
varieties of turkeys, guineas, peafowl, chickens, guppies, goldfish,
and wildflowers. He believes the world is a living hell and someday a
handsome fairy tale commoner (he gave up on the prince) will arrive
to make it all worthwhile. But if not, he’ll get by, because even alone,
he now resides in a country paradise, far from the madness of the
crowd.
Now If he could just stop the animals from killing each other . . ..
About the Author
| BIOGRAPHY--Gay Activist Pioneer |
To understand the quality of my writing, you should
know that my idols are Tennessee Williams, William Goldman, and Marc Cherry.
know that my idols are Tennessee Williams, William Goldman, and Marc Cherry.
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