Gay Like Me - Richie Jackson

Contents:

• GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON
• GAY LIKE ME
• GAY LIKE ME: RICHIE JACKSON'S IMPORTANT NEW BOOK WAS WRTEN FOR HIS SON
• GAY LIKE ME
• GAY LIKE ME: A FATHER WR TO HIS SON - HARDVER
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• GAY LIKE ME
• GAY LIKE ME

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.

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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.

GAY LIKE ME: RICHIE JACKSON'S IMPORTANT NEW BOOK WAS WRTEN FOR HIS SON

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.

" 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.

Like some gay men, he really really wanted to have children.

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He thks gay people should always be gay, bee we have our enemi and any sort of progrs n easily be taken away.

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

Multiple tim he rhetoric and quot directly om black liberatn movements, and jt appli the exact same thg to gayns?? Gay liberatn??????

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

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. This is the experience of a gay man.

The way a gay man n have a child is not easy. 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.

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

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But my reactn is the baggage of a gay man. If you do not live as a gay man every day, this may be the clost you’ll get.

◾︎380 reviews31 followersJune 19, 2021An important book markg the generatns between father and son om a gay male perspective. Richie Jackson lays out the realy of livg as a gay man the Uned Stat.

GAY LIKE ME

Hont, btal, tenr, lovg, polil - this book clearly scrib the world younger gay men face never sugar atg.

This book lovgly and telligently lays out one man's journey, fg his generatn for his teenage gay son.

I'm glad this gay dad is wrg to his gay son about his life, and his work to make the world more clive. Jackson is gay and otherwise super-privileged, which he acknowledg, but is still apparent his wrg. 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.