Category Archives: They Made Me a Homosexual

They Made Me a Homosexual: Mail Order Catalogs

OK. I don’t really think these bits of cultural ephemera created in my nubile little child-brain the lust and longing for members of my own gender that would propel so much of my behavior through the rest of my life. … Continue reading

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They Made Me a Homosexual: Comic Books

Images that glorified the male form. Stories that encouraged violence and vigilantism. Outsiders living double lives behind masks and other clever disguises. The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was right to alert the public to the dangers of comic … Continue reading

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