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A review by dasweinz
High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez
5.0
I gasped, I laughed, I cried, a little bit I sobbed. I loved this book. I am partial to memoirs, especially in audiobook read by the author, and this was a great listen.
One chapter that feels a bit like a microcosm of the book was Everything Is Sexy. I found myself pausing the book to laugh out loud. And then also just leveled with emotion (maybe that was when my dog came into the room to check on me?).
“Here’s what you don’t know, if you wanna feel sexy: you don’t know there are hit songs on the radio with lyrics about killing you; you don’t remember the teacher in high school who laughed along when your classmate asked how you and your boyfriend dealt with ‘the shit;’ you ignore that there are still laws barring sodomy; you never received electroshock therapy, so desperate parents willing to try anything might as well not be real; you don’t go back to the bedroom your uncle locked you in with a woman, back when you were 13 and still played with lizards; the statistics about LGBT homelessness are only numbers to you…”
A very engaging, moving read for me.
One chapter that feels a bit like a microcosm of the book was Everything Is Sexy. I found myself pausing the book to laugh out loud. And then also just leveled with emotion (maybe that was when my dog came into the room to check on me?).
“Here’s what you don’t know, if you wanna feel sexy: you don’t know there are hit songs on the radio with lyrics about killing you; you don’t remember the teacher in high school who laughed along when your classmate asked how you and your boyfriend dealt with ‘the shit;’ you ignore that there are still laws barring sodomy; you never received electroshock therapy, so desperate parents willing to try anything might as well not be real; you don’t go back to the bedroom your uncle locked you in with a woman, back when you were 13 and still played with lizards; the statistics about LGBT homelessness are only numbers to you…”
A very engaging, moving read for me.