Familiar Faces Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today

by Howard Brown

Book Overview

A former senior health-services official speaks honestly and plainly about what it is like to be gay in America. A classic of gay history. Introduction by Randy Shilts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156301202
• ISBN13: 9780156301206
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Here is a book that every one (gay or straight) should read.

Howard Brown M.D. was NYC's first health-services administrator. He faced great odds on coming *OUT* in 1973 as a public figure. His announcement, has he put it, "ended my life of fear." Through out the pages he tells of stories of small town America gay men, the task of 'Coming Out', and how there are more gay doctors, lawyers, and teachers than there are hairdressers. Brown's book tells of his own experiences and helps to reinforce the homosexual's self-esteem