On Being Different: What It Means To Be A Homosexual
On Being Different: What It Means To Be A Homosexual
The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in Americaāavailable again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage
Originally published in 1971, Merle MillerāsĀ On Being DifferentĀ is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for theĀ New York Times MagazineĀ entitled āWhat It Means To Be a Homosexualā in response to a homophobic article published inĀ Harperās Magazine. Described as āthe most widely read and discussed essay of the decade,ā it carried the seed that would blossom intoĀ On Being Differentāone of the earliest memoirs to affirm the importance of coming out.
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