The Man Club. It’s the electric place where gay gents pick up one-night stands, hot male dancers work for big tips, and fresh bachelorettes have their steamy, pre-marital parties. Running The Man Club is a crazy job for middle-aged Gyles Beare. Between hiring and firing dancers, keeping wait staff in line, and paying the bills, Gyles tries to have a love life, but it isn’t easy. Not at all. Enter Car Tate. Car lives with Gyles, and has been a solid tenant for the last few months. Handsome. Charming. A good head on his shoulders. Car sometimes works at the club to help Gyles out. He always has Gyles’s back. Lately, though, Car’s been over-the-top nice to Gyles. The sweet and romantic things Car’s been doing for Gyes are oddly pleasant. What’s going on? Is Car in love with Gyles? Is it time for Gyles to confront his hidden feelings and land the man of his dreams?

The Man Club

Pastor Andy says something about life and death, dust and love. My mind drifts…


Phillip recently told me, “I think Arnie’s having an affair behind my back. For the last year, he’s been jumping from one country to the next with his assistant, Sasha.”


Sasha Domokovky is in the wrong business. The twenty-three-year-old should be in movies because of his thick black hair, Olympian-cut frame, and heavy Russian accent. Sasha’s a winter prince, a nickname I devised for him: classy, handsome, charming, and aristocratic. He’d make a great villain in a James Bond movie. He’d make a beautiful lover to Ryan Gosling in a well-made and -written queer love story, a possible remake of Doctor Zhivago. Sasha is the guy everyone (men and women alike) wants to make love to, at least once in their lives


Chapter 9