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From boys to men : gay men write about growing up / edited by Robert Williams and Ted Gideonse.
- Title
- From boys to men : gay men write about growing up / edited by Robert Williams and Ted Gideonse.
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf, [2006]
- ©2006
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- Description
- xi, 308 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- More than an anthology of coming out stories, From Boys to Men is a stunning collection of essays about what it is like to be gay and young, to be different and be aware of that difference from the earliest of ages. In these memoirs, coming out is less important than coming of age and coming to the realization that young gay people experience the world in ways quite unlike straight boys. Whether it is a fascination with soap opera, an intense sensitivity to their own difference, or an obsession with a certain part of the male anatomy, gay kids -- or kids who would eventually identify as gay -- have an indefinable but unmistakable gay sensibility. Sometimes the result is funny, sometimes it is harrowing, and often it is deeply moving. Essays by lauded young writers like Alex Chee (Edinburgh), Aaron Hamburger (Faith for Beginners), Karl Soehnlein (The World of Normal Boys), Trebor Healy (Through It Came Bright Colors), Tom Dolby (The Trouble Boy), David Bahr, and Austin Bunn, are collected along with those by brilliant, newcomers such as Michael McAllister, Jason Tougaw, Viet Dinh, and the wildly popular blogger, Joe. My. God. --Publisher.
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- Contents
- Sleeping Eros / Michael McAllister -- The story I told myself / K.M. Soehnlein -- Preppies are my weakness / Tom Dolby -- Barbie Girls / Eric Karl Anderson -- Signs / Raymonde C. Green -- No matter what happens / David Bahr -- The lives and deaths of Buffalo Butt / Todd Pozycki -- Dick / Alexander Chee -- The upshot / Trebor Healey -- Guide / Austin Bunn -- Terrence / Joe Jervis -- The boy with the questions and the kid with the answers / Horehound Stillpoint -- A brief history of industrial music / Viet Dinh -- The competitive lives of gay twins / Michael Gardner -- Five stories about Francis / Francis Strand -- Mom-voice / Vestal McIntyre -- Growing up in horror / D. Travers Scott -- Inheritance / Lee Houck -- Whatever happened to ... / Aaron Hamburger -- Peristalsis / Mike McGinty -- Aplysia californica / Jason Tougaw.
- ISBN
- 0786716320
- 9780786716326
- LCCN
- 2007296306
- 9780786716326
- OCLC
- 71011486
- SCSB-11935453
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library