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Mama's Boy - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Mama's Boy - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 POLARI PRIZE 'A magnificent achievement .
. . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave,
insightful, unflinching, funny, sad, triumphant . . . everything.
And both a warning and a hope for the times to come' STEPHEN FRY
Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and
helped overturn California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, but
he grew up in a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio,
Texas. His mother, Anne, was raised in rural Louisiana, and
contracted polio when she was two years old. She endured brutal
surgeries, as well as braces and crutches for life, and was told
that she would never have children or a family. Willfully defying
expectations, she found salvation in an unlikely faith, raised
three sons, and escaped the abuse and violence of two questionably
devised Mormon marriages before finding love and an improbable
career in the U.S. civil service. When Lance came out to his mother
at twenty-one, he was already studying the arts instead of going on
his Mormon mission. She derided his sexuality as a sinful choice
and was terrified for his future. Mama's Boy explores what it took
to remain a family despite such division-a journey that stretched
from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to the woodsheds of East
Texas. In the end, the rifts that have split a nation couldn't end
this relationship that defined and inspired their remarkable lives.
Mama's Boy is their story. It's a story of the noble quest for a
plane higher than politics - one of family, foundations, turmoil,
tragedy, elation, and love. It is a story needed now more than
ever. 'To outsiders, my mom and I should have been enemies. Our
house should have been divided -- North vs South, red vs blue,
conservative vs progressive, or however you want to put it.
Instead, my mom and I fuelled each other. Her oil lit my lamp, and
eventually mine lit hers. The tools I'd learned to wield growing up
in her conservative, Christian, southern, military home were the
same I'd used to wage battles that had taken me from a broken-down
welfare apartment where gunfire sang me to sleep, to the biggest
stages in the world, and to the front row of the United States
Supreme Court to fight for LGBTQ equality.'
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