The National Book Award-winning coming-out memoir. "One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life" (LA Weekly).

Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving... and closeted. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid suspected of being a "homo" would routinely be beaten up, Monette kept his secret throughout his adolescence. He wrestled with his sexuality for the first thirty years of his life, priding himself on his ability to "pass" for straight. The story of his journey to adulthood and to self-acceptance with grace and honesty, this intimate portrait of a young man's struggle with his own desires is witty, humorous, and deeply felt.

Before his death of complications from AIDS in 1995, Monette was an outspoken activist crusading for gay rights. Becoming a Man shows his courageous path to stand up for his own right to love and be loved.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

• We started tracking this book on March 7, 2014.
• This book was $9.95 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 249 times in the past 3,958 days.
• The current price of this book is $11.99 last checked 3 hours ago.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is $2.99.
• The lowest price to date was $0.99 last reached on December 9, 2017.
• This book has been $0.99 2 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $17.99 last reached on December 1, 2024.
• This book has been $17.99 one time since we started tracking it.

• Biographies & MemoirsLeaders & Notable PeopleSocial Activists
• Biographies & MemoirsBiographies & Memoirs
• Biographies & MemoirsLeaders & Notable PeoplePolitical

• Publication Date: March 25, 2014
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 306 Pages
• File Size: 7,068 KB