“I was a living contradiction. I was still a self-hating gay man going to a straight psychotherapist with the intention of getting cured and getting married. There was no ‘gay pride’ back then — there was only gay fear and gay isolation and gay distrust and gay self-hatred.”
That’s gay eminence Edmund White on his new autobiography City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s, which – according to Towleroad – chronicles his journey through a “Crisco-slathered” decade.
A warning to “Julie and Julia” fans: City Boy is not a memoir about cooking with lard.
PS -The New York Times called White “a kind of sexual werewolf”, which we love.
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