You Can Run: Gay, Glam, and Gritty Travels in South America by Jesse Archer

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From Machu Picchu to a cocaine purchase in a Bolivian jail—and beyond!

How do you rough it in extreme South American travels and still dare to be different? You Can Run: Gay, Glam, and Gritty Travels in South America follows the intrepid and fantastic—and totally true—adventures of flamboyant gay men through the gritty rough and tough of South America. Author Jesse Archer and his American boyfriend Zane spent nearly two years traveling the continent in search of adventure. And find it they did. Discover incredible individuals like Patricia the pink lady, the Wolfman of Borneo, and Santusa the fanged Chola of a different color. Thrill to the astounding experiences of dodging crocodiles, doing a striptease for a Colombian bathroom bitch, admiring exultant transsexuals caught in a rainstorm, and navigating the most dangerous road in the world. This wild travel chronicle takes you through the real South America with wit, wisdom—and a hot pink wig!

What People Are Saying

Michael Musto
From Evita's palace to Chilean volcanoes and beyond. Jesse Archer TAKES US THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA WITH WIT, WISDOM, AND LOTS OF OUTFITS.

Q. Allan Brocka
If Che Guevara and David Sedaris had a hunky love child wet-nursed by drag queens, it would be Jesse Archer. . . . More than a FUNNY, SEXY, AND FIERCELY ENTERTAINING South American adventure, it's AN INSPIRING CHALLENGE TO CONSUME LIFE AND LIVE YOURS TO ITS FULLEST. Archer's witty and penetrating observations offer delicious insight of not only South American and Western culture, but life itself. In the first few pages, it will compel you to pack a wig, hop on a plane, boat, or moped and read the rest along the way. (Q. Allan Brocka, Writer & Director of Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World; Boy Culture; Eating Out)

Casper Andreas
One could argue that Jesse Archer redefines what it means to be a gay traveler. But really, You Can Run stops at nothing short of redefining how to live one's life. WILDLY FUNNY, CRAZY, AND TRULY INSPIRATIONAL! (Casper Andreas; Actor, Filmmaker A Four Letter Word, Slutty Summer)

Josh Kilmer-Purcell
If Bob Hope and Bing Crosby were gay, not dead, and actually funny, You Can Run: Gay, Glam, and Gritty Travels in South America is the road movie they'd make. HILARIOUS, SOPHISTICATED AND SOULFUL, Jesse Archer writes with an inescapable charisma. (Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Author of the New York Times Bestseller I Am Not Myself These Days)

Product Details

• ISBN: 156023654X
  
• ISBN-13: 9781560236542
• Format: Paperback, 244pp
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
• Pub. Date: April 2007
• Sales Rank: 302,407
• Series: Out in the World Ser.

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I ask where we are going and Gerardo feebly utters something in Portuguese. I can't make it out. Zane is now convinced I've employed a waterfront gangster. We pull up to a shoddy pier of three planks supported by timbers that rot in the lapping water.

"We should have gone with the other one!" Zane decries my flagrant frugality. "See? There's his accomplice." When Gerardo reappears outside the shack with another man Zane announces he hates to be killed with a cheapskate like me. "I'm gonna die, washed up over there with all that trash, my body all white and fat and . . . bloated!" zane has exercised too much in his life to die bloated. Dying bloated has just become the worst of all fates. Zane gasps earnestly to his active imagination. "Oh God, please not bloated!"

You Can Run is a funny, piercing, and poignant examination of memorable outcasts in the third world. Follow some of travel's most different adventure seekers—extreme travelers with a lot of sparkle!