reviews_and_ramblings | Ted Gideonse & Rob Williams

Ted Gideonse is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine doing HIV/AIDS prevention research; in June, 2013, he received his PhD in anthropology from UC San Diego, where he specialized in medical and psychological anthropology. For many years he was a journalist and an editor, he is currently a film critic for Maisonneuve and has written for Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Salon.com, The Advocate, and Out.

Rob Williams teaches English in San Diego, and his writing has appeared in M2M: New Literary Fiction, Fresh Men, I Do/I Don’t, The Gay and Lesbian Times, and Maisonneuve.

Further Readings:

From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up edited by Ted Gideonse and Robert Williams
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Press (September 4, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786716320
ISBN-13: 978-0786716326
Amazon: From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up
Amazon Kindle: From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up

More than an anthology of coming out stories, From Boys to Men is a stunning collection of essays about what it is like to be gay and young, to be different and be aware of that difference from the earliest of ages. In these memoirs, coming out is less important than coming of age and coming to the realization 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 would eventually identify as gay — have an indefinable but unmistakable gay sensibility. Sometimes the result is funny, sometimes it is harrowing, and often it is deeply moving. Essays by lauded young writers like Alex Chee (Edinburgh), Aaron Hamburger (Faith for Beginners), Karl Soehnlein (The World of Normal Boys), Trebor Healy (Through It Came Bright Colors), Tom Dolby (The Trouble Boy), David Bahr, and Austin Bunn, are collected along with those by brilliant, newcomers such as Michael McAllister, Jason Tougaw, Viet Dinh, and the wildly popular blogger, Joe.My.God.

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