Bibliograph

Type

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Memories of a gay Catholic boyhood, coming of age in the sixties, John D'Emilio

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Memories of a gay Catholic boyhood

Oclc number

1265457672

Responsibility statement

John D'Emilio

Sub title

coming of age in the sixties

Summary

"Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is leading queer historian John D'Emilio's memoir about growing up and becoming politically active in the 1960s. Divided into three parts, the book takes you from D'Emilio's childhood in the working-class Bronx to his time spent at a Jesuit high school in Manhattan, and finally to Columbia University, where D'Emilio entered the world of political and social upheaval characterized by the 1960s. Along the way, we read about D'Emilio's first sexual encounters and experiences with gay sexuality. Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood sheds light not only on the life of an individual but on the larger baby boom generation whose experiences are still shaping the United States today"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

An Italian family -- Big Grandma's house -- School : becoming a big boy -- Baby Jim -- Change, and more change -- A family of friends -- God help me! -- A beginning and an end -- A whole new world -- Striving to win -- My sexual desires -- Another ending -- Working in the city -- God is dead -- War and peace -- This is me -- I come out, sort of -- Her name is Margaret Mead -- And then I studied -- Now what do I do? -- A door opens

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