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Following My Path - Growing Up Gay in a Christian, Fundamentalist, Right - Wing, Conservative Family During The 1940's - 1960's (Paperback)
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Following My Path - Growing Up Gay in a Christian, Fundamentalist, Right - Wing, Conservative Family During The 1940's - 1960's (Paperback)
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Loot Price R445
Discovery Miles 4 450
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Imagine growing up in small Indiana towns in the 1940s in a very
strict religious family and then realizing at the age of six that
there was something sexually "wrong" with you. You had no name for
it, and you didn't really understand it, but you knew it all the
same. By the time you were seven and eight years old, you heard
adults talk about sexual perversion and teenagers using the terms
"faggot" or "queer" as if they were describing the plague. But you
knew deep inside it was you they were talking about Then skip
forward a few years when you felt compelled to find someone else
like you. You knew you couldn't be the only one, and you didn't
think you could survive on erotic dreams or daydreaming. And so you
began to sexually experiment with older men who called themselves
queer, but you knew it didn't describe you. Then, at age seventeen,
you found yourself in your first small gay bar, where you finally
discovered you weren't the only one like you on this planet But
when your mother discovered you'd been invited to a gay party, she
told you that you would burn in hell if you didn't become
heterosexual. And that was just the beginning. Following My Path is
the true account of the author discovering who he was and all the
things that happened along the way. Some of the things are serious,
and some are funny, but all are interesting and vital to
understanding what many gay people have had to endure. Reading
Following My Path may: * change your mind about whether being gay
is a choice or not; * make you see gay people differently and with
more understanding, particularly those who are older and in the
closet longer; * teach you to love your children unconditionally,
even if there are parts of them you can't understand or accept; *
teach you not to lay guilt trips on your children; and * teach gay
LGBT people not to leave God out of their lives, as we, too, are
made in his image, and he wants us to lead happy and fulfilling
lives. Following My Path is the author's confirmation in his belief
in God and his comfort with being an "outed," gay Christian.
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