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Gay Like Me: A Father Wr to His Son (Audible Aud Edn): Richie Jackson, Richie Jackson, HarperAud: Books

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GAY LIKE ME

In Richie Jackson’s Gay Like Me, which is part personal story and part manual, the thor implor his son not to disunt the history he will her. * gay like me book review *

DuBois quote about the black experience, orr to scribe the [whe] gay experience, while failg to talk even once about whe privilege the LGBT muny is upsettg. In fact, Richie Jackson's "Gay Like Me" left me wonrg: if a gay father is wrg a letter about "beg gay" to his gay son 2020, is irrponsible to rema silent on the ways which whe gays have gaed numero privileg while their trans and PoC siblgs have not?

GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON

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Wrten as a long form letter to his llege-aged gay son, "Gay Like Me" is a memoir-meets-epistle that reunts the numero stggl members of the LGBT muny have faced om the AIDS crisis through the current Tmp princy.

RICHIE JACKSON’S GAY LIKE ME ASKS: HOW MUCH SUFFERG SHOULD A FATHER PASS ON TO HIS SON?

Much of this is admirable, and I, for one, am thankful for the activism and work Jackson did his own time ACT UP and wh other anizatns anizg for our issue, though, is that his book fails to analyze the ways which he, himself, as a whe, wealthy, gay man, also experienc a vast amount privilege that buffers him om the experienc of members of the LGBT muny who aren't as lucky. That's not a crique; 's a historil fact), and nversatns that jt don't seem to want to acknowledge that anizatns like the HRC and people like Pete Buttigieg, while certaly beg nomally gay, actually stand for polil posns that negatively impact a lot of non-whe, non-cis, and non-male queer people.

GAY LIKE ME

" In this book, wrten by a gay father to his gay son, he says, "It's a cel world out there and you have to be reful.

He thks gay people should always be gay, bee we have our enemi and any sort of progrs n easily be taken away. Multiple tim he rhetoric and quot directly om black liberatn movements, and jt appli the exact same thg to gayns??

All-lgbtq tob-memoir528 reviewsFebary 1, 2020If I had to pare this book to another, I would say ’s siar to “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coat but a gay man wrg to his gay son, stctg him how to survive a straight world. And yet, gay men are not immune om the heartbreak of losg a child, gettg divorced, havg a reer. The thor has many famo iends and seemed to be the heart of the gay revolutn New York.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Prejudice, vlence, hatred still exists towards gay people the Uned Stat and around the world.

If you do not live as a gay man every day, this may be the clost you’ll get.

◾︎381 reviews31 followersJune 19, 2021An important book markg the generatns between father and son om a gay male perspective. Hont, btal, tenr, lovg, polil - this book clearly scrib the world younger gay men face never sugar atg.

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