Breaking the straight trance of received TITANIC history, San Francisco author Jack Fritscher reclaims gay history by writing a pitch-perfect sex epic of gay survival. TITANIC outs the forbidden gay love story of the world's most famous cruise, featuring the Unsinkable Molly Brown, the posh lovers Michael Whitney and Edward Wedding, and the working crew including the rugged Balkan Stoker, the redheaded Royal Purser Felix Jones, and the ship's second carpenter Michael Brice and Third Officer Sam Maxwell. TITANIC sank April 15, 1912, creating a media frenzy. Fritscher said, In movie-newsreel footage shot three days later on the deck of the rescue ship CARPATHIA immediately after it docked at Chelsea Piers in New York, a dozen of the surviving TITANIC crew, mostly sailor lads in tight white pants hiding little, showing lots, can be seen in very intimate horseplay, camping around, and posing in life jackets, pretending to faint. Of the 885 male crew on TITANIC, 693, or 78 percent, died. Al