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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Content: Boyd's autobiography. Background / Biography: Malcolm Boyd (born 8 June 1923 in Buffalo, New York) is an American Episcopal Priest and author. In the 1960s Boyd became known as “The Espresso Priest” for his religiously-themed poetry-reading sessions at the “Hungry i” nightclub in San Francisco. Boyd went on to become a prominent white clergyman in the American Civil Rights Movement. Continued on Wikipedia Reviews: "We all know someone whose story this is: the aching loneliness, the growing isolation, the dim early awareness of the presence but not the nature of a unique and cruel defect that must be forever hidden, while one gradually learns its unspeakable names - sissy, fairy, pansy, faggot, queer, homosexual - and recognizes, with mounting horror and shame, that masked part of oneself. "The creative life and works of Malcolm Boyd are exemplars of one man's obdurate will to survive and even contribute to the world of indifferent killers of poets' dreams. They are a testament to amazing strength, amazing grace. One can only wonder - as with the victims of the Holocaust - what creative riches have been lost, unrealized through many generations of those who, less obdurate or too tightly strung, sickened and died in spirit." Dave Smith Los Angeles Times (from the cover) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"My chalk-white clown's face was punctuated by black crow's-foot wrinkles at the outer corners of my eyes, bright red lips and orange hearts painted on my cheeks when I played the role of a clown one Sunday morning in New York City in the spring of 1977. Wearing greasepain, I became someone else as I stepped into my clown's costume. Automatically I was required to play a role even beyond the one I am usually asked to play on the stage of my life. Severl months earlier I had revealed to the world that I am gay. A news magazine described how many had viewed me - "blunt, restless, eloquent and above all open." Yet it noted the brooding presence of a mask in my public life: 'He kept one aspect of his life deeply private: his homosexuality.' I kept it so private that originally I planned to write this book to be published posthumously. Finally, I have come to accept my place as among the living. Now I want to engage in whatever debate or controversy may surround the book. Yet, why controversy? Why isn't my gayness, and that of others, accepted as normal sexual orientation and behavior for millions of gay people?" opening paragraph, Introduction Secondhand booksellers |
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