Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and
early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious
coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host
David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay
and Goth in San Antonio, Texas. In the summer of 1989, three Goth
kids crossed a street in San Antonio. They had no idea that a
deeply confused fourteen-year-old boy was watching. Their dyed
hair, fishnets, and eyeliner were his first evidence of another
world--a place he desperately wanted to go. He just had no idea how
to get there.Somehow David Crabb had convinced himself that every
guy preferred French-braiding his girlfriend's hair to making out,
and that the funny feelings he got watching Silver Spoons and
Growing Pains had nothing to do with Ricky Schroeder or Kirk
Cameron. But discovering George Michael's Faith confirmed for David
what every bully already knew: he was gay. Surviving high school,
with its gym classes, locker rooms, and naked, glistening senior
guys, would require impossible feats of denial. What saved him was
finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being
outsiders. David found himself enmeshed with misfits: wearing
black, cutting class, staying out all night, drinking, tripping,
chain-smoking, idolizing The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, and Joy
Division--and learning lessons about life and love along the way.
Richly detailed with 80s pop-culture, and including black and white
photos throughout, BAD KID is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is
poignant. Crabb's journey through adolescence captures the essence
of every person's struggle to understand his or her true self.
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