Richie Jackson on Polil Signifince of Memoir ‘Gay Like Me’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON KDLE EDN
• LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON [GAY BLACK / MM SHORT STORY] KDLE EDN
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• GAY BOOK PROMOTNS
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER SHAR ADVICE WH HIS SON AT THE START OF HIS OWN LGBTQ JOURNEY
• TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• RICHIE JACKSON ON POLIL SIGNIFINCE OF HIS MEMOIR ‘GAY LIKE ME’

GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON KDLE EDN

Chosen by Town & Country as one of the most anticipated books of the year | Named "An LGBTQ Book That'll Change the Lerary Landspe 2020" by O: The Oprah MagazeIn this poignant and urgent love letter to his son, award-wng Broadway, TV and film producer Richie Jackson reflects on his experienc as a gay man Ameri and the progrs and setbacks of the LGBTQ muny over the last 50 years. He is not ready to be a gay man livg Ameri. "When Jackson's son born through surrogacy me out to him at age 15, the succsful producer, now his 50s, was pelled to reflect on his experienc and share his wisdom on life for LGBTQ Amerins over the past Like Me is a celebratn of gay inty and parentg, and a powerful warng for his son, other gay men and the world.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON [GAY BLACK / MM SHORT STORY] KDLE EDN

Jackson looks back at his own journey as a gay man g of age through s of polil and cultural turmoil. Jackson's son liv a seemgly more liberated Ameri, and Jackson betifully lays out how far we’ve e sce Stonewall -- the creased visibily of gay people society, the legal right to marry, and the existence of a dg to prevent HIV.

But bigotry is on the rise, igned by a print who has clared war on the gay muny and fanned the flam of homophobia.

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

Beg gay is a gift, Jackson wr, but wh their gas jeopardy, the gay muny mt not be placent. As Ta-Nehisi Coat awakened to the ntued pervasivens of racism Ameri Between the World and Me, Jackson’s rallyg cry Gay Like Me is an eye-openg dictment to straight-lash Ameri.

Gay Like Me is a blueprt for our time that bridg the knowledge gap of what ’s like to be gay Ameri. If I really thought about , at some pot his life this boy uld disver that he might be, you know, not gay.

A few are gay, actually, but don't tell their wiv. I know never crossed his macho Argentean md that, when I was born, the ltle baby sg up at him would one day turn out to be gay. And you thk about the radil, right-wg half-ws who thk the gays rec young boys to the church of fabulo.

GAY BOOK PROMOTNS

We got what we got, and a gay boy he's not.

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BOOK REVIEW Gay Like Me: A Father Wr to His Son. Today, you may be close or you may have a chasm of or emotn between you, but as the new book Gay Like Me, by Richie Jackson, you're a lot more like Dad than you thk. From the time he was small, Jackson knew two thgs: he "felt lucky to be gay, " and he wanted to be a father someday.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

"Everythg good that has happened to me is bee I am gay, " he says—and that clus the birth of his son, born to a surrogate when Jackson was his thirti. Sce then, the meantime, the sentiment has surely doubled sce Jackson's son me out as gay.

That was his "greatt wish for" his son, that he know the joy of beg gay bee 's "a gift. The thgs give Jackson hope as he lnch his elst son the world as a gay man, but he has advice….

Don't fall to the same dgs-and-alhol trap that's ensnared so many other gay men. Perhaps not, but if he's a gay young man, he might still be glad to have Gay Like Me.

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

You don't, other words, have to be young or gay or even a man to enjoy "Gay Like Me.

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TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

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MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

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

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