D'Emilio Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood

Coming of Age in the Sixties
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2316-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten

Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is John D’Emilio’s coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood and Columbia University to New York’s hidden gay male subculture and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Emilio, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Part I. An Italian Boy from the Bronx
1. An Italian Family 3
2. Big Grandma's House 11
3. School: Becoming a Big Boy 17
4. Baby Jim 25
5. Change, and More Change 32
6. A Family of Friends 40
7. God Help Me! 49
8. A Beginning and an End 57
Part II. A Jesuit Education
9. A Whole New World 65
10. Striving to Win 76
11. My Sexual Desires 84
12. Another Ending 94
13. Working in the City 105
Part III. Everything Changes
14. God Is Dead 119
15. War and Peace 128
16. This Is Me 140
17. I Come Out, Sort Of 148
18. Her Name Is Margaret Mead 160
19. And Then I Studied 169
20. Now What Do I Do? 182
21. A Door Opens 194
Postscript 205
Acknowledgments 207

Über Autor(innen)

John D’Emilio is Emeritus Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the author of many books, including The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture, also published by Duke University Press; Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin; Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970; and Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow, and he was a finalist for the National Book Award for Lost Prophet, which won the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award for nonfiction. D’Emilio was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2005 and was named Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune in 2004. He lives in Chicago.