DevOps Library

Gay Lesbian Nonfiction

Download You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson PDF

By Carol E. Anderson

Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian domestic within the ?60s, a time while being homosexual used to be against all social and non secular mores and a criminal offense in such a lot states. Fearing the rejection of her mom and dad, she hides the reality approximately her love orientation, growing emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her strong sights to ladies whereas pursuing fake efforts to be with males.

The watershed aspect in Carol?s trip comes whilst she returns to graduate college and discovers the feminist stream, which emboldens her feel of private energy and the liberty to like whom she chooses. yet this feeling of self-possession comes too past due for honesty along with her father. His unforeseen dying sooner than she will inform him the reality brings the complete rate of Carol?s mystery crashing in?compelling her to come back out to her mom earlier than it's too overdue. Candid and poignant, You Can?t purchase Love Like That finds the complicated invisible dynamics that come up for homosexual those who are compelled to conceal their actual selves with the intention to survive?and celebrates the hard-won rewards of discovering one?s brave center and reaching self-acceptance and self-love.

Show description

Read Online or Download You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties PDF

Similar gay & lesbian nonfiction books

Colonialism and Homosexuality

Colonialism and Homosexuality is a radical research of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the overdue 1800s - the period of 'new imperialism' - until eventually the period of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a few liaisons, together with these of recognized males resembling Cecil Rhodes, E.

Friendship as a Way of Life: Foucault, AIDS, and the Politics of Shared Estrangement

Develops Foucault's past due paintings on friendship right into a novel critique of latest GLBT political approach. Borrowing its identify from a 1981 interview of Michel Foucault, Friendship as a fashion of Life develops the philosopher's past due paintings on friendship right into a novel critique of up to date GLBT political process.

The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel

While Israel declared its independence in 1948, Harry Truman issued a memo spotting the Israeli executive inside 11 mins. this present day, the U. S. and Israel proceed on as companions in an from time to time arguable alliance—an alliance, many argue, that's powerfully inspired by means of the Christian correct.

Peek: Inside the Private World of Public Sex

PEEK: contained in the deepest global of Public intercourse is an up shut and private examine impersonal intercourse, exploring where-to, how-to, and when-to have intercourse in public. This academic and instructive advisor unearths the steamy global of intercourse in bathhouses, gyms, parks, peep exhibits, swinger’s golf equipment, men’s rooms, and cruising on the web.

Additional resources for You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties

Example text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.61 of 5 – based on 41 votes