Young Man from the Provinces: A Gay Life Before StonewallHelms vividly brings to life the time just before Stonewall and the Gay Liberations Movement in this poignant, insightful, often humorous remembrance of his journey from a midwestern adolescence to a self-absorbed life as a male model in New York and Europe in the 1960s, ending with his self-acceptance as a gay man in a homophobic society. |
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| Title | Young Man from the Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall |
| Author | Alan Helms |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Avon Books, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0380729008, 9780380729005 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General |
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