Small Town Gay by Lee Logan - AbeBooks

Contents:

• BOOK REVIEW: ‘SMALL TOWN GAY: GROWG UP DIFFERENT THE SOUTH’
• SMALL TOWN GAY: GROWG UP DIFFERENT THE SOUTH
• SMALL-TOWN GAY
• SMALL TOWN GAY BY LEE LOGAN (12 RULTS)
• SMALL TOWN GAY BAR

BOOK REVIEW: ‘SMALL TOWN GAY: GROWG UP DIFFERENT THE SOUTH’

Young adult books wh lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr MAIN characters that take place small towns or ral settgs. bisexual, fictn, gay, lbian, lgbt, lgbtq, ral, settg, small-town, small-towns, teen, transgenr, ya, young-adult. Purchase here: Small Town Gay: Growg Up Different the South.

A chronicle of stori om childhood to prent, Small Town Gay revels the tails of life the fict town of Mercer, KY — and the joy of Lee’s work really is the tails. From pranks endured at the hands of big sister Leanne, through gra-school iends and early-adult lovers, Small Town Gay creat an timate time-warp of memori. Though each discrete moment has a fe topic of s own, Small Town Gay is full of smaller gs-out that unrgird the climactic parental nfsns (often nsired The g out).

SMALL TOWN GAY: GROWG UP DIFFERENT THE SOUTH

A nice girl asks Lee to dance; he agre, but wonrs if people “uld tell that [he] was gay and fakg . All all, Logan Lee’s Small Town Gay is a touchg and enjoyable read.

’ SMALL TOWN GAY is his but troductory ments Logan offers, prr to sharg his memoir, aptly suggt the qualy of his wrg: ‘This book is a memoir of what I endured throughout gra school, middle school, high school, and beyond, while beg different om those around me.

SMALL-TOWN GAY

This is what our rears thought:Tle: Small Town Gay: Growg up Different the SouthAuthor: Logan LeeStar Ratg: 4 StarsNumber of Rears: 17StatsEdg: 7/10Wrg Style: 7/10Content: 7/10Cover: 4/5Of the 17 rears:12 would read another book by this thor. Rears’ Comments“A very enjoyable book scribg the life of the thor (who is gay) small town Ameri. Are you gay/lbian and currently ridg a small town, or did you grow up a small town?

Small-Town Gay tak an adult view of the difficulti of eher hidg who you are or facg the rults of the tth. Gay and lbians.

SMALL TOWN GAY BY LEE LOGAN (12 RULTS)

My novel The Prettit Star, set 1986, asks what happens when a gay, HIV+ man go back to the small town where he grew up. I wanted to wre a story that sh a light on an overlooked part of the AIDS epimic, those gay men who returned to the fai and muni that had rejected them, and on an tersectn we don’t see enough lerature: the queer and the ral. Like many queer kids, I learned about the world, and about myself, through books, gleang unspoken possibili about sexualy, genr, and masculy, om characters like tomboy Sut and her “cur” iend Dill to the homoerotic greasers The Outsirs.

It was the first piece of lerary fictn I ever read that picted queer characters (gay wboys! Both love song to and crique of Appalachia, the majory of the stori this but llectn take place the mountas of Wt Virgia, where ’s not easy to be gay. The geo, poignant tle story explor g of age as a young gay boy the mountas, a queer love story that ends not tragedy but wh a gasp of hope.

Grimsley wr about the realy of homophobia and vlence, but also about the bety and tenrns and hols of a place, of young love: “They step to rt a ltle way si the fort unr a gkgo tree, s goln leav showerg round them as they get their breath. Rafael, a young gay, HIV+ man, returns om San Francis, where he’s lost so many iends, to take re of his father.

SMALL TOWN GAY BAR

This lh, poetic, genero, philosophil novel, told om multiple characters’ pots of view, both gay and straight, exam the love and flaws and fivens of fay—whether blogil or chosen: “fay has no fixed boundari but is eternally changg, a river whose banks are formed by all those to whom she choos to bd herself wh the joys and burns of love. A young, gay, black man a small, ral town the South feels trapped by muny, by the opprsive relign of his fay, and by his own sexual reprsn.