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Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories

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An edition of Boys Like Us (1996)

Boys Like Us

Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories

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Boys Like Us presents the true "coming out" stories of a stellar line-up of gay writers, spanning two generations. Written specifically for this collection, these are powerful, often stunning evocations of the primal process by which men come to terms with their desire for other men.

Coming out is undeniably central to every gay man's life, but the phrase encompasses multiple meanings. Here are accounts of revealing one's sexual identity to parents, siblings, friends, and 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.

One man writes of his marriage to a lesbian poet, another of leaving his wife for a male lover. Several selections reveal the autobiographical underpinnings of famous novels. These are intense, sometimes unexpectedly funny tales of romance and heartbreak, repression and liberation, rape and first love - defining moments.

  1. Arranged chronologically from Manhattan in the late '40s to San Francisco in the early '90s, these personal essays ultimately form a documentary of changing social and sexual mores in the United States during the last half-century - a literary, biographical, sociological, and historical tour de force.
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Publisher
Avon Books (T)
Language
English
Pages
365

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Cover of: Boys like us
Boys like us: gay writers telltheir coming out stories
1997, Avon Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Boys Like Us
Boys Like Us
October 1, 1997, Harper Paperbacks
in English
Cover of: Boys like us
Boys like us: gay writers tell their coming out stories
1997, Fourth Estate
in English
Cover of: Boys like us
Boys like us: gay writers tell their coming out stories
1996, Avon Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Boys Like Us
Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories
October 1996, Avon Books (T)
in English

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First Sentence

"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."

Classifications

Library of Congress
HQ75.7 .B69 1996, HQ75.7.B69 1996

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7435931M
ISBN 10
0380973405
ISBN 13
9780380973408
LCCN
96020705
OCLC/WorldCat
34788643
Library Thing
2640520
Goodreads
1624684

Work Description

Twenty-eight of the nation's most-admired gay writers, including Edmund White, Alan Gurganus and Andrew Holleran, along with rising talents, present never-before-published tales of their coming out, spanning the years 1949 to 1995

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