Boys Like Us (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Boys Like Us Sunday, November 1 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Jo Bennie’s request to change the contributors of Boys Like Us Thursday, October 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Patrick Merla: (Primary Editor)

Timothy Gray changed the title of Boys Like Us Thursday, October 22 2009.

Jo Bennie edited the contributors of Boys Like Us Thursday, October 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Patrick Merla: (Primary Editor)

Shelfari edited the description of Boys Like Us Sunday, August 2 2009.

• In stunning essays written especially for this collection, twenty-nine noted gay writers recount their true "coming out" stories, intensely personal histories of that primal process by which men come to terms with their desire for other men. Here are accounts of revealing one's sexual identity to parents, siblings, friends, co-workers and, in one notable instance, to a stockbroker. Men tell of their first sexual encounters from their preteens to their thirties, with childhood friends who rejected or tenderly embraced them, with professors, with neighbors, with a Broadway star. These are poignant, sometimes unexpectedly funny tales of romance and heartbreak, repression and liberation, rape and first love defining moments that shaped their authors' lives. Arranged chronologically from Manhattan in the Forties to San Francisco in the Nineties, these essays ultimately form a documentary of changing social and sexual mores in the United States--a literary, biographical, sociological and historical tour de force.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Boys Like Us Thursday, July 16 2009.

• IN THE EARLY fall of 1972, I was living in San Francisco, where I had moved to work for Saturday Review magazine as an assistant editor.