Richie Jackson (Author of Gay Like Me)

Contents:

• GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON
• GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON KDLE EDN
• GAY LIKE ME
• GAY LIKE ME QUOT
• GAY LIKE ME: JORDAN AND RICHIE’S PRI + JOY
• RICHIE JACKSON’S GAY LIKE ME ASKS: HOW MUCH SUFFERG SHOULD A FATHER PASS ON TO HIS SON?
• GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER SHAR ADVICE WH HIS SON AT THE START OF HIS OWN LGBTQ JOURNEY
• RICHIE JACKSON ON POLIL SIGNIFINCE OF HIS MEMOIR ‘GAY LIKE ME’
• GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON - HARDVER

GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON

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? 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.

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: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON KDLE EDN

" 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. 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.

◾︎379 reviews31 followersJune 19, 2021An important book markg the generatns between father and son om a gay male perspective.

GAY LIKE ME

His inty is pletely vted his beg gay, which I unrstand, but he is very obliv other 's so irrponsible to nflate the experienc of cis gays and trans people, pecially sce trans people are statistilly more at-risk when to hate crim and siar suatns. The name-checkg of Pete Buttigieg, while not acknowledgg all the harm Buttigieg has done as a fellow gay whe man, really mak this clear.

If you're lookg for a super-basic oversharg om a whe gay father to a biracial gay son, this is that, but hs all the not lgbtq memoirs 533 reviews15 followersFebary 26, 2020Richie Jackson is the award-wng talent manager and producer of the h televisn show, Nurse Jackie, as well as other Broadway plays, films, and televisn shows. When the baby need a blood transfn a uple months later, Jackson wr his son that “bee BD and I are gay, we were prohibed by US Food and Dg Admistratn regulatns to be your blood donor…bee we were gay we uldn’t take re of you the way you need to be taken re of, the way we had pledged to take re of you. A smackdown when we were already down—one son ad, one son cril ndn who may not survive…Jt a few months old and you were already nonted wh gay prejudice.

GAY LIKE ME QUOT

”Gay Like Me is Jackson’s letter to his gay son, a book-length letter which he reflects upon gay inty, history, and culture as he prepar his son to live as a gay man a untry that “don’t want you, don’t accept you, is systematilly attemptg to erase you. Wrg about his own g out experience, Jackson remds his son that even though gay persons are now visible, “our new mastream inty…is a false salve.

”Jackson then wr his son that “your nfint attu about beg gay when you say your generatn jt don’t thk is a “big al” greatly ncerns me. I am aaid that you aren’t aware of what tak to be an out gay man a society that ems you as ls than others, of the fortu, stama, and perseverance need to live a safe, fulfillg, and priful life of gay self-teem a world that is tryg to erase you.

” He go on to say that one way to celebrate that otherns which “breeds empathy, embolns ias, and expands boundari” is to see what gay artists and wrers have unrstood about beg gay a straight tells him to look at the art of Keh Harg and Robert Mapplethorpe, to see plays like Angels Ameri, and to read books by Jam Baldw and Andrew Holleran. ”Though each chapter of this short book v reflectn, when I read this sectn of Gay Like Me, I thought about what happens when I read. ” Thkg about Jackson’s words to his son remds me why I read so much lerature by gay thors and why I vour movi that reprent and acknowledge my humans we all have much mon.

GAY LIKE ME: JORDAN AND RICHIE’S PRI + JOY

It is the arts that nourish as we disver ourselv and how to live to the wrg about fay, iendship, love, sex, AIDS, grief, parentg, polics, anger, and more, the thor has wrten a love letter to rm and empower his gay son. He has also wrten to bridge two generatns: one which fought to brg gay life out of the shadows and one that seems placent and unprepared for LGBTQ life Jackson wrote Gay Like Me as a letter to his son, he has wrten a letter for all gay men across the generatns. He has also wrten a letter that will help those who are straight better unrstand the people their life who are gay men.

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

Bgraphy-tobgraphy-memoir historil-fictn rmatnal306 reviews12 followersOctober 3, 2022“Gay Like Me” is treatise on how to be a rich, whe, privileged, gay man. For stance, Jackson picks the term “openly gay” apart and twists s meang until ’s an unregnizable ball of homophobia.

GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER SHAR ADVICE WH HIS SON AT THE START OF HIS OWN LGBTQ JOURNEY

Last, Jackson’s tailg of preparg his son wh “gay geography” wasn’t jt another crgeworthy moment, also highlighted how out of touch Jackson is wh opportuny and abily of the LGBTQ muny to be mobile and explore other parts of the untry outsi his/her/their backyard. In the end, if you’re “gay like me” than you’re probably a rich, whe, gay du tryg to cultivate a brand stuck the early 2000s. Although beg gay is a re piece of my inty and experience of life, this thor has a peculiar way of narrowg life to the extent that basilly nothg outsi of beg gay even seems to exist.

”)He seems to simultaneoly over-romanticize beg gay as if he really h the jackpot somehow while simultaneoly overstatg the challeng of beg gay. His son grew up a whe, affluent hoehold wh gay dads a famoly gay-affirmg cy, but dad nstantly warns how hard life will be for him. Parents who spect their son is gay should read this book immediately, and gift to their child once they e out.

His take on Pri, Gay Safe Spac, Gay inty feel so personal to me that readg them here felt affirmg and wonrful. To unrstand why beg gay, IS a big al, and why, even wh advancements our rights and visibily, we still need to fight, and still need to be proud.

RICHIE JACKSON ON POLIL SIGNIFINCE OF HIS MEMOIR ‘GAY LIKE ME’

He grew to unrstand differently, and I thk, om readg the letters to his son, and to a younger gay generatn, we n all e to unrstand thgs a ltle differently too. "memoir-bgraphy non-fictn queer297 reviews29 followersReadJuly 31, 2020If I ever have a queer son I'll have to warn them about how no one n cut down queer people like other queer people--which is why I hate to do this,, Gay Like Me is a very ftg tle.

Beg the same age I remember what felt like g of age when he did, before hookup apps, before the Inter, before pronouns, and genr ntral bathrooms, and certaly before gay parents. I remember the journey to fatherhood, the NICU six weeks early than was tend, my son no bigger than my forearm and the luck we had at receivg re om a gay neonatologist what was otherwise a fairly nservative part of California. Jackson argu and rightfully for the necsy of the he says to his son, “You don’t have to be gay like me, but you do need to be sufficiently gay your own way”.

GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON - HARDVER

He'd lived through the AIDS crisis and now has a gay son who is gog away to llege and wants to share all the val rmatn he's learned throughout his gay life. It jt seemed a lot like "advice om your rich whe gay dad's pot of view who eras your ethnicy and trash morn-day gay culture. 2020 arcs asian 108 reviews2 followersApril 19, 2021Havg jt adopted a son wh my hband, I felt very emotnal thkg how far LGBTQ+ people have e and how much I am livg a dream many of my gay anctors uld hardly image.

Jackson wr betifully on his experienc as a gay youth, his volvement wh gay theater NY, his activism wh ACTUP and his experience survivg the AIDS epimic. He implor his son to fight on behalf of the muny, for those untri where is not safe to be gay, for those Ameri that are beg persecuted.