Project MUSE - Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood

Contents:

• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD
• MEMORIES OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD
• IN “MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD,” AN LGBTQ HISTORIAN EXAM HIS PAST
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI
• ALUMNITALK: "MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD"
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD SUMMARY AND REVIEWS
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI
• MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD

“In this fascatg self-portra and sightful portra of his tim, a proment queer historian rells growg up the 1950s and ’60s—a smart, p, nservative, Catholic boy om a workg-class Italian fay the Bronx transforms himself to a radil left, openly gay Columbia Universy stunt. "Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood ncerns how an Italian boy abandoned thoughts of the prithood to embrace his te inty.

MEMORIES OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD

Burr, Gay and Lbian Review. "D’E, who has been an ement historian of the Amerin gay man’s experience and stggle durg his lifetime, has turned his searchg eye ward and now giv a different kd of history—one that’s pegged to his own life, lov and learngs. "As D’E appli his skills as an acclaimed social and cultural historian to his own youth, Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood offers a rg and thoughtful wdow to a time of enormo change Amerin society and the Catholic Church.

His acunt is warm and grac; he is quick to acknowledge his own limatns while acknowledgg the ccial role of his iends and fay shapg and lovg the gay Catholic man he beme.

“John D’E’s Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is a tenr memoir of New York Cy boyhood, stretchg om the ethnic, workg-class enclav of the Bronx to the burgeong world of gay liberatn the Village to the radil classrooms of Columbia Universy. D’E’s historil acumen and vivid prose prent a plited visn of pre-Stonewall gay life, which will fascate anyone who lov the history of New York Cy.

IN “MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD,” AN LGBTQ HISTORIAN EXAM HIS PAST

Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is a grippg read.

A highlight of the week is often a gut speaker, equently an actor or sports figure, who speaks to their experience as a gay man or lbian.

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD

This narrative is que different om the story offered John D’E’s rmative and enjoyable memoir, Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood. Whout suggtg that the procs of acceptg himself as a gay man wh a tradnal Italian Amerin, stnchly Catholic, Republin fay environment durg the 1960s was easy or pleasant, D’E do not give the rear a story of rejectn, angst and self-hatred.

Actually, many ways, D’E, an emer profsor at the Universy of Illois and a noted scholar of LGBTQ history who has twice received the Stonewall Book Award, habed a world of extend fay, Catholic schools and parish life that offered a relatively safe space for him to disver himself as a polilly progrsive gay man. Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood offers a rg and thoughtful wdow to a time of enormo change Amerin society and the Catholic Church. Still, such a remendatn of a book featurg homosexual relatns would have been extraordary at a Catholic high school 1963.

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI

As D’E appli his skills as an acclaimed social and cultural historian to his own youth, Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood offers a rg and thoughtful wdow to a time of enormo change Amerin society and the Catholic Church.

Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is John D’E’s g-of-age story which he tak rears om his workg-class Bronx neighborhood and Columbia Universy to New York’s hidn gay male subculture and the polil and social upheavals of the late 1960s.

John D’E is Emer Profsor of History and Genr and Women’s Studi at the Universy of Illois, Chigo, and the thor of many books, cludg The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Polics, and Culture, also published by De Universy Prs; Lost Prophet: The Life and Tim of Bayard Rt; Sexual Polics, Sexual Communi: The Makg of a Homosexual Mory the Uned Stat, 1940–1970​; and Queer Legaci: Stori om Chigo’s LGBTQ Archiv. On Thursday, October 27, Columbia Pri hosted queer historian and thor John D’E (CC ’70, GSAS ’74, ’82) for an AlumniTALK on his new memoir: Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Comg of Age the Sixti. Cz (CC ’88) troducg D’E wh a few words about his reer and the var queer history texts he has thored, cludg Sexual Polics, Sexual Communi and Makg Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Polics, and the Universy.

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI

Cz also announced that D’E’s aforementned memoir, Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Comg of Age the Sixti, had been published two weeks prr by De Universy Prs. It wasn’t until his experience at Columbia, when he enuntered other gay men, that he began to earntly explore his inty. In rponse to a qutn about a piece of media that he feels illtrat the realy of gay life the 60s, he poted to David Johnson’s book The Lavenr Sre, as well as his own book Sexual Polics, Sexual Communi.

In rponse to another qutn about the changg landspe of queer acceptance, he noted that while homophobia and transphobia still undoubtedly exist, he is moved by the amount of change he has seen his lifetime, potg to how queerns is no longer seen as a mental illns or crimalized, the prence of GSAs middle and high schools across Ameri, and the legalizatn of gay marriage the Uned Stat. HomeBooksSocial ScienceMemori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Comg of Age the SixtiJohn D'E is one of the leadg historians of his generatn and a pneerg figure the field of LGBTQ history.

How do a fay which the word divorce was never spoken raise a son who to explore the hidn gay sexual unrworld of New York Cy?

ALUMNITALK: "MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD"

Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D'E's g-of-age story which he tak rears om his workg-class Bronx neighborhood to an ele Ju high school Manhattan to Columbia Universy and the polil and social upheavals of the late 1960s. Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Comg of Age the Sixti on JSTOR.

Columbia's first LGBTQ group was formed durg the years, and the Stonewall Uprisg and the birth of gay liberatn occurred as well. And how do a boy raised a Catholic fay where the word divorce was never spoken disver and explore the hidn gay unrworld of NY before Stonewall?

Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood trac the growg promise of New York’s LGBTQ+ muny.

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD

Later, on a trip to Europe, he fally embraced his te inty as a gay man.

But beyond this early sense of fort, there’s unease: D’Elo’s growg awarens that he was gay led to youthful discretns, like bbg legs wh others on the subway.

The cy was one of the US’s great epicenters for gay muni. Greenwich Village the mid-1960s had hidn gay bars and unrground bookstor.

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD SUMMARY AND REVIEWS

Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood ncerns how an Italian boy abandoned thoughts of the prithood to embrace his te inty.

Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood. "D'E is a pneer of genr and sexualy studi and gay history, and his memoir serv as much regnn as his scholarship...

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD

"In this fascatg self-portra and sightful portra of his tim, a proment queer historian rells growg up the 1950s and '60s—a smart, p, nservative, Catholic boy om a workg-class Italian fay the Bronx transforms himself to a radil left, openly gay Columbia Universy stunt.

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI

This rmatn about Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood was first featured. John D'E is Emer Profsor of History and Genr and Women's Studi at the Universy of Illois, Chigo, and the thor of many books, cludg The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Polics, and Culture, also published by De Universy Prs; Lost Prophet: The Life and Tim of Bayard Rt; Sexual Polics, Sexual Communi: The Makg of a Homosexual Mory the Uned Stat, 1940–1970​; and Queer Legaci: Stori om Chigo's LGBTQ Archiv.

In this episo of the Queer Voic podst, John Marszalek terviews thor John D’E, one of the leadg historians of his generatn and a pneerg figure the field of LGBTQ history, about his memoir, Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Comg of Age the Sixti (De UP, 2022). Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D’E’s g-of-age story which he tak rears om his workg-class Bronx neighborhood to an ele Ju high school Manhattan to Columbia Universy and the polil and social upheavals of the late 1960s. We all studied Lat for four years, but after sophomore year we had to sort ourselv out on separate tracks acrdg to another foreign language.

Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Comg of Age the Sixti. Jo Genr and Women's Studi to celebrate the publitn of Profsor Emer John D'E's latt book, Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood. Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U.

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person.

“The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people. In acclaimed thor, LGBTQ+ historian and Universy of Illois-Chigo (UIC) Genr and Women's Studi Profsor Emer John D'E's new memoir, Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood, he wr about g of age the 1950s and '60s New York Cy.

Among D'E's numero lerary aclas are the 1984 Amerin Library Associatn Stonewall Book Award non-fictn for his book Sexual Polics, Sexual Communi: The Makg of a Homosexual Mory the Uned Stat, 1940—1970; the 2004 Randy Shilts Award and Stonewall Book Award for Lost Prophet: The Life and Tim of Bayard Rt; the 2005 Yale Universy Bdner Prize and 2013 the Publishg Triangle Bill Whehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood chronicl D'E's childhood a workg-class Bronx neighborhood to his time at the ele Ju Regis High School Manhattan and fally his llege years at Columbia Universy and first forays as a workg adult.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

I had no ia ially how to scribe or name what I was feelg as a young gay person.

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

"It opens up wh a Black gay character stg a movie theater where he is cised by other men.

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI

There are gay characters and bad thgs happen. D’E (Queer Legaci) is a pneer of genr and sexualy studi and gay history, and his memoir serv as much regnn as his scholarship. This narrative is que different om the story offered John D’E’s rmative and enjoyable memoir, Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood.

MEMORI OF A GAY CATHOLIC BOYHOOD: COMG OF AGE THE SIXTI

History who has twice received the Stonewall Book Award (1984 and 2004), habed a world of extend fay, Catholic schools and parish life that offered a relatively safe space for him to disver himself as a polilly progrsive gay man. Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood offers a rg and thoughtful wdow to a time of enormo change Amerin society and the Catholic the novelist and cric Mary McCarthy, whose Memori of a Catholic Girlhood was characterized by prec atheism and a sense that prits were generally idts, D’E found an tellectual, warm and affectnate home the Catholic muny, particularly at Regis High School, the amilly ele Ju prep school Manhattan.

He was and still is, he not, attracted to the dive and to the mystil dimensns of human D’E appli his skills as an acclaimed social and cultural historian to his own youth, Memori of a Gay Catholic Boyhood offers a rg and thoughtful wdow to a time of enormo change Amerin society and the Catholic Church. His acunt is warm and grac; he is quick to acknowledge his own limatns while acknowledgg the ccial role of his iends and fay shapg and lovg the gay Catholic man he article also appeared prt, unr the headle “An Open Wdow, ” the July and Augt 2023, LnaneBrian Lnane, S.