On Being Different: What it Means to be a HomosexualThis small book represents an act of courage. For the first fifty years of his life, Merle Miller rarely spoke of his homosexuality-even to the people closest to him. Then, in January 1971, in a poignant, beautifully written essay in the New York Times Magazine, he told "what it Means to Be a Homosexual. (Front cover). |
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