From boys to men : gay men write about growing up / edited by Robert Williams and Ted Gideonse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Robert (Robert R.), 1969-

Gideonse, Ted.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--United States.

Gay men.

United States.

Gay men's writings, American.

Physical Description:

xi, 308 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Carroll and Graf edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Carroll& Graf, [2006]

Summary:

In these memoirs, coming out is less important than coming of age and realizing 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 eventually identify themselves as gay-have an indefinable but unmistakable gay sensibility. Sometimes the result is funny, sometimes it is harrowing, and often it is deeply moving.

Contents:

Sleeping Eros / Michael McAllister 1

The Story I Told Myself / K. M. Soehnlein 19

Preppies Are My Weakness / Tom Dolby 35

Barbie Girls / Eric Karl Anderson 45

Signs / Raymonde C. Green 57

No Matter What Happens / David Bahr 69

The Lives and Deaths of Buffalo Butt / Todd Pozycki 89

Dick / Alexander Chee 103

The Upshot / Trebor Healey 119

Guide / Austin Bunn 131

Terrence / Joe Jervis 143

The Boy with the Questions and the Kid with the Answers / Horehound Stillpoint 167

A Brief History of Industrial Music / Viet Dinh 181

The Competitive Lives of Gay Twins / Michael Gardner 195

Five Stories about Francis / Francis Strand 211

Mom-Voice / Vestal McIntyre 223

Growing Up in Horror / D. Travers Scott 243

Inheritance / Lee Houck 251

Whatever Happened to... / Aaron Hamburger 259

Peristalsis / Mike McGinty 273

Aplysia californica / Jason Tougaw 287.

ISBN:

0786716320

OCLC:

71011486

Publisher Number:

9780786716326