On being different : what it means to be a homosexual / Merle Miller ; foreword by Dan Savage ; afterword by Charles Kaiser

Author: Miller, Merle, 1919-1986
Published: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2012.
Physical Description: xvi, 74 pages ; 20 cm.
Additional Creators: Miller, Merle, 1919-1986

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Contents

Foreword / Dan Savage -- Acknowledgments / Carole Hanley -- A note on the text. -- On being different: What it means to be a homosexual, January 1971 -- Afterword, May 1971. -- [New] afterword / Charles Kaiser -- Appendices: A: Miller's reply to a friend who was critical of the article -- B: Miller's letter to his former wife, Elinor -- Ralph Martin's obituary for Miller -- Fragments from Frank Kameny's foreword to On being different -- Notes.

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"Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being gay in America. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine entitled 'What It Means To Be a Homosexual, ' in response to a homophobic article [published] in Harper Magazine. Miller's writing, described as 'the most widely read and discussed essay of the decade, ' along with an afterord chronicling his inspiration and reader's responses. became On Being Different-- one of the earliest memoirs to affirm the importance of coming out."--Cover.
Presents the thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States.

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