Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0299161609
ISBN 13
9780299161606
Category
Non-Fiction
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Pages
240
Abstract
In 1973, a sweet-tempered, ferociously imaginative ten-year-old boy named Patrick Horrigan saw the TV premiere of the film version of Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand. His life would never be the same. Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies traces Horrigan’s development from childhood to gay male adulthood through a series of visceral encounters with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s: Hello Dolly!, The Sound of Music, The Poseidon Adventure, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Wiz.
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1
