Geni Pictur has optned Emmett Monterey’s memoir about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London for TV adaptatn.
Contents:
- DISABILY: 'PEOPLE ASSUME I N'T BE GAY BEE I'M DISABLED'
- GAY AND DISABLED: I’M PROUD OF WHO I AM
- I’M GAY, OLD, AND NOW DISABLED
- I AM CELEBRATG MY EXISTENCE AS A GAY, BLACK, DISABLED MAN 25 YEARS AFTER I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE
- WHO AM I? I’M BENJAM, I’M GAY AND I’M DISABLED
- DISABLED AND GAY: WHERE DO I GO?
DISABILY: 'PEOPLE ASSUME I N'T BE GAY BEE I'M DISABLED'
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GAY AND DISABLED: I’M PROUD OF WHO I AM
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I’M GAY, OLD, AND NOW DISABLED
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I AM CELEBRATG MY EXISTENCE AS A GAY, BLACK, DISABLED MAN 25 YEARS AFTER I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE
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WHO AM I? I’M BENJAM, I’M GAY AND I’M DISABLED
I am jt as gay as I am disabled as I am a first generatn Latx. )My “g out” procs, both my disabled and gay inti, was gradual. That is also my hope about sharg my own experience, and that our able-bodied gay unterparts receive our msage.
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DISABLED AND GAY: WHERE DO I GO?
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Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn. At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay.