Los Angeles
“My Two Wives and Three Husbands”
— S. Stanley Gordon and Joe Howard October 19, 2011 / 7:30 p.m.
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Gordon has described the experience of understanding and claiming his gay identity in his well-reviewed memoir My Two Wives and Three Husbands.
Born into a Russian-Jewish immigrant family in the 1920s, he knew he was different, but he didn’t know what that meant. It took two wives, and successful careers as a doctor of optometry and an entrepreneur to help him find out. In his talk he’ll share with us what he learned and where life took him (Broadway, anyone?).
In Gordon’s own words his life has been “one man's search for love -- first in the straight world, then in the gay one. . .against a background of professional endeavors, show business, family interaction, heartbreaks, triumphs, and laughter. Through it all I never stopped seeking, finding, losing, seeking, finding LOVE, for without it all else is hollow.”
Now a successful first time author in his eighties (his book earned 4.5 stars out of 5 on Amazon), he lives happily with husband number three, Joe Henry. Gordon’s son and daughter-in-law have blessed them with four terrific grandchildren and a growing brood of great-grandchildren.
Come and be inspired by this man whose life has been fabulous largely because of his own tremendous enthusiasm for the journey with all it’s false starts, strange twists and wonderful surprises.
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