Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir Audiobook by Jonathan Alexander

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ID: 611984
Title: Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir
Author: Jonathan Alexander
Narrator: Donald Corren
Format: Unabridged
Length: 05:02:30
Language: English
Release date: 10-18-22
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Biography & Memoir, General

Summary:
An unvarnished accounting of one mans struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity
In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years1989, 1993, and 1996Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophobic heights of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Bill Clinton, and the steady advancements in gay rights that followed. With humor and wit afforded by hindsight, Alexander relives his closeted college years, his experiments with his sexuality in graduate school, his first marriage to a woman, and his budding career as a college professor.
As he moves from tortured self-denial to hard-won self-acceptance, the author confronts the deeply uncomfortable ways he is implicated in his own story. More than just a coming-out narrative, Dear Queer Self is both an intimate psychological exploration and a cultural examinationa meshing of inner and outer realities and a personal reckoning with how we sometimes torture the truth to make a life. It is also a love letter, an homage to a decade of rapid change, and a playlist of the sounds, sights, and feelings of a difficult, but ultimately transformative, time.

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