About Jon Jay Williams

Jon Jay, born in 1936, is a bisexual male now happily retired from all work both in the corporate and sexual worlds. A former advertising copywriter and then creative director for one of Chicago's premier agencies, he also had extensive experience working on his own as a hustler and as a member of two call boy rings before his 30th birthday.

His use of the term bisexual to define his orientation is based upon the facts of his life which frequently appear in his writing. He never felt ill at ease sexually with women and they were included in his sexual appetite. The frequency of their occurrence both sexually and romantically was limited until he was in his forties, based upon the nature of the work he was engaged in until then and because, in his own words, "There were more thrills in the pursuit of illicit sex when I was growing up. The danger involved was just as much a turn on as many of the encounters themselves. I was clearly stupid, but I was young, had few troubles making conquests of the fair sex, so -- chasing after boys was more exciting."

As noted, JJ claims there are some autobiographical truths in everything he writes. Although he became monogamous and removed from the sex scene before the advent of the AIDS virus he well understands the drives and feelings the 'it can't happen to me' that have plagued the gay community since then. "When I was feeling that way it was about gay bashing, getting discovered and getting arrested."

Although many of the actual incidents included in his fiction occurred pre-AIDS, when appropriate, he has modified the action to depict safe sex practices. Where the story is felt to be clearly set in the freewheeling sex jungle of the pre-AIDS era his hope is that the reader will understand and not try to emulate any character's actions without making appropriate adjustments for his safety.

JJ's output includes a vivid fictional autobiographical tour of the '50s -- 'First Person Singular', several other novels, collected short stories, erotic novellas and short stories as well as poetry and word pictures from the last fifty-some years of growing up gay in the good ol' U S of A.