Fag Hag is a novel by gay writer Robert Rodi

Robert Rodi

Robert Rodi is an American novelist, playwright, comic book writer, essayist, and performance artist.-Biography:...

 published in 1992 by E. P. Dutton

E. P. Dutton

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, New York.

Set in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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, the story is about the love of Natalie Stathis and Peter Leland. Nathalie will do just anything to keep him, a point she proves even when Peter falls in love with another man, thus the title Fag Hag, a gay slang phrase referring to a woman who either associates mostly or exclusively with gay and bisexual men, or has gay and bisexual men as close friends.