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Boys Like Us Paperback - 1997
by Patrick Merla; Hetrick Martin Inst
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In stunning essays written especially for this collection, 29 noted gay writers recount their true "coming out" stories, intensely personal histories of the primal process by which men come to terms with their homosexuality. These essays form a documentary of changing social and sexual mores, timed to coincide with National Coming Out Day (October 11) and AIDS Awareness Month.
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I thought this book was great! Great stories about real life people coming "out" and/or coming to terms with their sexuality.
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IN THE EARLY fall of 1972, I was living in San Francisco, where I had moved to work for Saturday Review magazine as an assistant editor.
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In stunning essays written especially for this collection, twenty-nine noted gay writers recount their true "coming out" stories, intensely personal histories of that primal process by which men come to terms with their desire for other men. Here are accounts of revealing one's sexual identity to parents, siblings, friends, co-workers and, in one notable instance, to a stockbroker. Men tell of their first sexual encounters from their preteens to their thirties, with childhood friends who rejected or tenderly embraced them, with professors, with neighbors, with a Broadway star. These are poignant, sometimes unexpectedly funny tales of romance and heartbreak, repression and liberation, rape and first love defining moments that shaped their authors' lives. Arranged chronologically from Manhattan in the Forties to San Francisco in the Nineties, these essays ultimately form a documentary of changing social and sexual mores in the United States--a literary, biographical, sociological and historical tour de force.
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- Title Boys Like Us
- Author Patrick Merla; Hetrick Martin Inst
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, Dresden, Tennessee, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1997-10-01
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780380788354 / 0380788357
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.02 x 1.02 in (22.96 x 15.29 x 2.59 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Lgbt
- Category Gender Studies
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96020705
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.766
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