Boys Like Us by Patrick Merla
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.
Merla, Patrick: - 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780380973408 |
| ISBN 10 | 0380973405 |
| Title | Boys Like Us |
| Author | Patrick Merla |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 1996-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 365 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Men's Studies) 1996 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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