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William Morrow & Company (1982), Edition: 1st Edition, 288 pages
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When Toby Marotta, in the Tenth Anniversary Report for the Harvard Class of 1967, informed his classmates that he was a homosexual, he soon began to hear from other gay alumni. In this carefully interconnected series of portraits, Marotta shows how ten of Harvard's best and brightest can also be ten of her gayest. Their stories provide insights that are sometimes touching, occasionally surprising, and always compelling as accounts of coming of age at Harvard and growing up gay." --From back cover
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LibraryThing member tobyjohnso
A groundbreaking book about a groundbreaking college class. Students all over America, including from Harvard, were graduating into the "Summer of Love" when everything began to change.
I'm proud to have worked as Toby Marotta's assistant on this book, editing his extensive taped interviews and
The course of cultural transformation -- especially for gay men -- is apparent in that decade. This book is a wonderful statement about the maturation of gay consciousness in the period after Stonewall. And, of course, it was iconoclastic when it first came out: Who knew there were homosexuals at Harvard? This book helped wake up American culture (and Harvard culture) to the reality of gay consciousness and challenged stereotypes.
And the guys Toby interviewed were really appealing men. It's neat to see into their lives.
I'm proud to have worked as Toby Marotta's assistant on this book, editing his extensive taped interviews and
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conversations with his Harvard classmates into literate text. The book was done in the late 70s, so ten years after graduation. The course of cultural transformation -- especially for gay men -- is apparent in that decade. This book is a wonderful statement about the maturation of gay consciousness in the period after Stonewall. And, of course, it was iconoclastic when it first came out: Who knew there were homosexuals at Harvard? This book helped wake up American culture (and Harvard culture) to the reality of gay consciousness and challenged stereotypes.
And the guys Toby interviewed were really appealing men. It's neat to see into their lives.
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288 p.
ISBN
0688010202 / 9780688010201
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