Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0380973405 ISBN 13 : 9780380973408

Editeur : Avon Books, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Merla Patrick Ed

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Patrick Merla edited two of the most influential gay publications in the United States: Christopher Street and New York Native. He is the author of The Tales of Patrick Merla. He lives New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Avon Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0380973405
• ISBN 13: 9780380973408
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 365
• Éditeur: Merla Patrick
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible