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Mama's boy : a story from our Americas

Black, Dustin Lance (author.).

Summary: From a screenwriter and political activist, a memoir about growing up as a gay Mormon in Texas that is, as well, a tribute to the mother who taught him about surviving against all odds. Dustin Lance Black helped overturn California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, but as an LGBTQ+ activist he has unlikely origins. Raised in a military, Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas, Black always found inspiration in his plucky, determined mother. Having contracted polio as a small girl, she endured leg braces and iron lungs, and was repeatedly told that she could never have children or live a normal life. Defying expectations, she raised Black and his two brothers, built a career, escaped two abusive husbands, and eventually moved the family to a new life in Southern California. While Black struggled to come to terms with his sexuality--something antithetical to his mother's religious views--she remained his source of strength and his guiding light. Later, she would stand by his side when he helped bring the historic gay marriage case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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  • ISBN: 9781524733278
  • ISBN: 152473327X
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

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General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book."
Formatted Contents Note: Still water -- Safety's sound -- Our suffering -- A body in motion -- Bedrock -- Grand theft auto -- Can't walk, can't talk -- Bull by the horns -- Hungry devils -- Deliverance -- West of home and east of Eden -- Secret somethings -- Allemande left -- Queen of the ma'ams -- Xmas down -- Hungry jackals -- Spinning yarn -- Milk calls -- Cataclysm -- SCOTUS hiatus -- Virginia roads -- Our Americas -- Mama's boy.

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Subject: Black, Dustin Lance -- Childhood and youth
Black, Dustin Lance -- Family
Gay men -- United States -- Biography
Mothers and sons -- United States
Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography
Genre: Autobiographies.

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Squamish Public Library 306.7662092 BLA (Text) 33110003317482 Adult Non Fiction Volume hold Available -
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