Part memoir, part history, Chelsea Boy explores one twenty-year-old's transformation from small-town Iowa boy to big-city Chelsea Boy. Inspired by New York's famous gayborhood's venues and nightlife, Moreau's poems explore what was gained, and what was lost, to identify as a Chelsea Boy-a term historically and contextually as diverse as the community it belongs to. Through travels beyond the gay-ghetto of Chelsea's streets, Chelsea Boy seeks to unfold this stereotype and find definition in the term and meaning in one's identity.