Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties

by John D'Emilio

Book Overview

John D'Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a family who worshipped Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported Richard Nixon produce an antiwar activist and pacifist?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478015926
• ISBN13: 9781478015925
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"