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Growing up gay : from left out to coming out / by Funny Gay Males (Jaffe Cohen, Danny McWilliams, and Bob Smith) ; illustrations by Michiko Stehrenberger.
- Title
- Growing up gay : from left out to coming out / by Funny Gay Males (Jaffe Cohen, Danny McWilliams, and Bob Smith) ; illustrations by Michiko Stehrenberger.
- Author
- Funny Gay Males (Comedy team) author.
- Publication
- New York : Hyperion, [1995]
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| Text | Request in advance | HQ76.2.U5 F86 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 242 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In Growing Up Gay, America's leading gay comedy team, Funny Gay Males, has written the definitive celebration of coming of age for those of us who spent our wonder years wondering just how we were going to survive our childhoods as strangers in a straight land." "Here are all the special things we loved, strategies we adopted, and situations we avoided in making our way toward being officially and at long last Out. Relive with the Funny Gay Males the joy of discovering Dr. Seuss and his gallery of self-conscious misfits. Remember that perfect gay kid hero, Superman, who like many of us left his small town for the big city and a low-paying job in a creative business. Recall the trouble you got into by gravitating to all the "wrong" toys. Be nostalgic about Prom Night, when you wanted to tell your camera-wielding parents that they were right not to pass up their last opportunity to document their son's date with a girl, and about when you developed your first awkward, embarrassing, delirious crush on the boy next door."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- humor.
- Humor
- Humour.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Born to be Wilde: from conception through kindergarten: Origins of the species -- Am I blue? -- The gay baby book -- Gays 'n dolls -- Fairy tales -- Horton hears a yoo-hoo -- pt. 2. Starting out: Age five through twelve: A day in the life -- The trouble with angels or, gay kids and religion -- Putting the Bible through DeMille -- Long day's journey into silent night -- AC/DC comic books--Gay boys and other superheroes -- The games gay children play -- The gay world according to Ripley -- Queeries or, snappy answers to obnoxious questions -- pt. 3. From queer to eternity: classic gay television and film: The gay kid's guide to television -- Queer TV vs. non-queer TV -- The gay episodes -- And now a word from our sponsor -- The birth of a queer nation or, how we learned to love the movies -- The good, the bad, and the Nutty Professor -- A co-star is born -- Gays on film -- Home movies -- pt. 4. Enslaved by the bell: adolescence and beyond: High school -- The totally ridiculous homosexual history of the United States of America or, above the fruited plains -- How to be a sissy in gym class -- The boys in the school band (queer clubs and non-queer clubs) -- Great expectations: gay boys and the opposite sex -- Bone-anza or, the gay boy surviving puberty -- Sticks and stones -- Epilogue: The second coming out.
- ISBN
- 0786880562
- 9780786880560
- LCCN
- 94045867
- OCLC
- 31782394
- SCSB-11551947
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library