the front runner by patricia nell warren

It can get very complicated in team sports.

WARREN: Well, in team sports, you not only can run into unpleasantness and attitudes from your teammates, but your coach, the team owners, the sponsors. SIMON: And review for us some of the hesitation they have. Certainly, there have been significant changes since the 1970s, but it isn't all that easy, especially in team sports. SIMON: I think it's fair to say that you are a touchstone for many young gays in sports. PATRICIA NELL WARREN (Author, 'The Front Runner' and 'The Lavender Locker Room'): Thank you for having me. Patricia Nell Warren joins us from the studios of NPR West. 'The Lavender Locker Room,' a collection of essays about sports figures from a 13th-century jouster named Jeanne la Pucelle - you may know her as Joan of Arc - to big Bill Tildon, the tennis star, David Kopay, the football player and the great Martina Navratilova. As the Olympic games open in Beijing, Patricia Nell Warren has a new book of out. It contains frank accounts of gay life in the early '70s.Īnd yet, 'The Front Runner' long ago leapt from the shelves of so-called 'gay fiction' to become one of the best-selling novels of recent times, selling 10 million copies in eight languages. The book was considered daring and controversial when it was published. He wants to represent his country in the 1976 Olympics. 'The Front Runner' tells the story of Billy Sive, the young track star who is fast, gifted and gay. Patricia Nell Warren wrote a novel in 1974 that's important to millions.

The front runner by patricia nell warren