Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2019
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- Hardcover
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Ex-library book with only one stamp, one label. Dust jacket enclosed in protective polyethylene sleeve, flaps adhered to pastedowns. Binding is pristine. Text has one dog-eared leaf, o/w no soiling, markings, folds, or tears. 347 pages. "Through moving, emotional stories - of friends and therapy patients, and of his own - Odets considers how experiences early in life launch men on trajectories to futures that are not authentically theirs. He reimagines how we might reframe gay life by considering everything from the misleading and constraining idea of 'the homosexual,' to the diversity and richness of gay relationships, to the historical roles of stigma and shame and the significance of youth and aging.".
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- Title
- Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
- Author
- Walt Odets
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374285853
- ISBN 13
- 9780374285852
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 6.25 inches width by 9.25 inches height by 1.5 inches depth
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically
It goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those from the most progressive of backgrounds still struggle with the legacy of early-life stigma and a deficit of self-acceptance, which can fuel doubt, regret, and, at worst, self-loathing. And this is to say nothing of the ongoing trauma wrought by AIDS, which is all too often relegated to history. Drawing on his work as a clinical psychologist during and in the aftermath of the epidemic, Walt Odets reflects on what it means to survive and figure out a way to live in a new, uncompromising future, both for the men who endured the upheaval of those years and for the younger men who have come of age since then, at a time when an HIV epidemic is still ravaging the gay community, especially among the most marginalized.
Through moving stories—of friends and patients, and his own—Odets considers how experiences early in life launch men on trajectories aimed at futures that are not authentically theirs. He writes to help reconstruct how we think about gay life by considering everything from the misleading idea of “the homosexual,” to the diversity and richness of gay relationships, to the historical role of stigma and shame and the significance of youth and of aging. Crawling out from under the trauma of destructive early-life experience and the two epidemics, and into a century of shifting social values, provides an opportunity to explore possibilities rather than live with limitations imposed by others. Though it is drawn from decades of private practice, activism, and life in the gay community, Odets’s work achieves remarkable universality. At its core, Out of the Shadows is driven by his belief that it is time that we act based on who we are and not who others are or who they would want us to be. We—particularly the young—must construct our own paths through life. Out of the Shadows is a necessary, impassioned argument for how and why we must all take hold of our futures.
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