My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey

Beye is an amusing and witty raconteur as he reflects on his fist 80 years, but the most compelling material is in the book's first half, which reveals the public's permissive attitude toward homosexual behavior in the 1940s (if Beye is to be believed). It's interesting to see how gay erotic love was accepted more readily than gay romantic love, and how that changed over Beye's lifetime. But one wishes for more analysis of the shifting times and of Beye's shifting identity.