Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

by Jeremy Atherton Lin

Overview

In his second book of cultural memoir, following up his “absolute tour de force” (Maggie Nelson) Gay Bar, Jeremy Atherton Lin lays bare a love outside the law—the blooming of his  relationship through pivotal years in the gay marriage debate. In 1996, Atherton Lin meets the boy of his dreams—a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit—just as US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies same-sex couples federal rights, including immigration. Being together across borders means dropping out, hiding away, and seeking out sanctuary among unlikely allies in a “city of refuge.”

Layering their experiences with those of past outliers, including his parents’ interracial romance,  Atherton Lin explores the many forms of intimacy and questions the mechanisms that legitimize love. Told through personal and historical memory, DEEP HOUSE weaves a chorus of whispered disclosures of undocumented domestic life with the courthouse battles, media spin, and political maneuvers surrounding the most contentious civil rights issue of an era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316545792
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	05/06/2025
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy Atherton Lin is an Asian-American essayist based in Los Angeles and East Sussex, England. His debut, Gay Bar, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and was named a book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Artforum, Spin and Vogue. Atherton Lin has contributed to The Paris Review, The Yale Review, the Times Literary Supplement, Granta, the Guardian, Frieze, The Face, GQ, and more. He has been nominated for the Randy Shilts Award, National Magazine Award, Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and Jhalak Prize. He has lectured at Cornell University, University of Southern California, The Courtauld, Royal College of Art, Birkbeck University, and Uppsala Universitet. His sound essays can be heard on NTS Radio.