![]() Becoming a Man shows his courageous path to stand up for his own right to love and be loved. ![]() The story of his journey to adulthood and to self-acceptance with grace and honesty, this intimate portrait of a young man’s struggle with his own desires is witty, humorous, and deeply felt.īefore his death of complications from AIDS in 1995, Monette was an outspoken activist crusading for gay rights. He wrestled with his sexuality for the first thirty years of his life, priding himself on his ability to “pass” for straight. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid suspected of being a “homo” would routinely be beaten up, Monette kept his secret throughout his adolescence. Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving. ![]() “One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life” ( LA Weekly). The National Book Award–winning coming-out memoir. ![]()
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