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The Golden Boy (Hardcover)
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The Golden Boy (Hardcover)
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This is the first autobiography to be published by The Haworth
Press.This is the first autobiography to be published by Harrington
Park Press.The place is New York City. The time is the decade
before the plague of AIDS. Thousands of gay men were living a
free-wheeling lifestyle of club hopping, "score" hunting, sex
without fear, and upward mobility. To none did The Big Apple offer
greater rewards than to those young men who had the envied "male
model" look.Author James Melson belonged to this exclusive clique:
he was tall, blond, muscular, and very "straight looking." He was a
model at 19, and by 25, was a highly successful Wall Street banker.
His good looks offered him immediate entry into exclusive clubs and
onto the sexual fast track with actors, male models, and other
members of the "Clique."The author brings you behind the scenes
into the lifestyle of the handsome "Clique"--providing details of
the vigorous and entertaining excitement of the times. He
exposes--for one of the few times in print--the lesser-known
attitudes of the "Clique" and their disdain for "ugly faggots,"
their obsession with strictly the chic and glamorous, and the fast
lane life of partying and sex.For 200 pages, the reader is brought
back to the era that for many older readers is just a memory, and
for younger readers a time they never knew--when to be a "Golden
Boy" was to be a prince, and sex was only fun and games.The Golden
Boy autobiography ends when the author is diagnosed with AIDS,
abandoned by a lover and friends, and left to look back on his life
with a growing perspective.The role of "good looks" and people with
AIDS is rarely talked about, particularly by gay survivors whose
lesser appeal was once perhaps a curse but then ultimately their
saving grace. This is not just another AIDS autobiography but a
document dealing indirectly with this fact of life. The
autobiography is introduced by Larry Mass, MD, an internationally
recognized social historian/physician who examines the "Culture of
Narcissism" in that era. Arnie Kantrowitz then presents an
astonishingly frank and perhaps shocking Epilogue which will have
many readers wanting to re-read the book.
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