{"id":18,"date":"2006-10-26T09:37:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T09:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2018-02-17T02:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T02:36:47","slug":"take-some-time-out-to-read-the-great-piece-on-the-book-in-time-out-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/26\/take-some-time-out-to-read-the-great-piece-on-the-book-in-time-out-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Take some time out to read the great piece on the book in Time Out New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Greenfield did a great job, and we&#8217;re overjoyed. You can read the article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeoutny.com\/newyork\/Details.do?page=1&amp;xyurl=xyl:\/\/TONYWebArticles1\/578\/gay_lesbian\/the_outsiders.xml\">on the\u00a0TONY\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It starts like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Soap-opera obsessions. Elaborate fantasy lives. Suburban isolation. Being called \u201cfag.\u201d These are standard-issue elements of growing up queer for some gay men\u2014especially for the 21 contributors of From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up, which charts the familiar terrain with fresh texture. \u201cTo the gay reader,\u201d write editors Robert Williams and Ted Gideonse in their joint introduction, \u201cthese memoirs will reverberate like the clearest of bells. To the straight reader, we hope you will understand that whom we love is not our only difference: so are the ways that we see the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That sentiment gives the collection a twist that separates it from its predecessors. Though the editors say they did look toward 1996\u2019s Boys Like Us (Harper Paperbacks) as a guiding light, they made a conscious shift away from traditional coming-out stories. Instead, they asked writers to narrate a tale that illustrated their individual coming-of-age perspectives. \u201cWe wanted to know,\u201d Williams explains, \u201cHow did they view the world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks a millions, Beth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Greenfield did a great job, and we&#8217;re overjoyed. You can read the article\u00a0on the\u00a0TONY\u00a0website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromboystomen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}