My Last Dance with Auntie Brie

R. Naples

Sep 2024 · R. Naples · AI-narrated by Maxwell (from Google)

About this audiobook

Ron Naples' debut novel, is a gay, erotic, fictionalized memoir, based on his coming out experiences in the '70s. It is a time when closet doors were nailed shut, but more than a vicissitude, it is also a peek back at the Disco Era. Raised an Italian Catholic, Ron breaks free from his family life, when he is introduced to his first gay bar. There he meets a drag queen named Auntie Brie, who shapes his destiny. Revisit the 1979 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, join in the debauchery of NYC's Studio 54, and escape to Ptown for a summer gone wild. My Last Dance with Auntie Brie defines a gay generation who succumbed to the hedonistic lifestyle of that time which is now legendary.

About the author

Ron Naples, a native of Connecticut, has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner Joe, for the last 39 years. In the ‘70s, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and became a successful musician. In later years, he enrolled in The National Holistic Institute in California and became certified in massage therapy, which he continues to practice today.