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You won’t fd a buttoned-up gay love story the pag: Purnell unearths the dysfunctn of Black, broke and queer men fallg and out of love (or, well, lt).

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’ …He is excellent, too, on how classil tragedy is nearly always about men, or fathers and sons… Dozens of siar arguments are rehearsed How To Be Gay. ’ He urg gay men to take their so-lled femy out of ‘homosexualy’s newly built closet, ’ to see plaly and to give affirmative terpretatns.

“How To Be Gay celebrat[] the sharp-elbowed mp culture that many now nsir obsolete… How n someone be gay whout havg seen Mildred Pierce or The Wizard of Oz? Halper observ, as others have before him, that gay boys often display stereotypil tast long before sex enters the picture.