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Swish : My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever by Derfner, Joel is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
What is Swish : My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever about?
Joel Derfner is gayer than you. Don't feel too bad about it, though, because he has made being gayer than you his life's work. At summer day camp, when he was six, Derfner tried to sign up for needlepoint and flower arranging, but the camp counselors wouldn't let him, because, they said, those activities were for girls only. Derfner, just to be contrary, embarked that very day on a solemn and sacred quest: to become the gayest person ever. Along the way he has become a fierce knitter, an even fiercer musical theater composer, and so totally the fiercest step aerobics instructor (just ask him--he'll tell you himself).In Swish, Derfner takes his readers on a flamboyant adventure along the glitter-strewn road from fabulous to divine. Whether he's confronting the demons of his past at a GLBT summer camp, using the Internet to "meet" men--many, many men--or plunging headfirst (and nearly naked) into the shady world of go-go dancing, he reveals himself with every gayer-than-thou flourish to be not just a stylish explorer but also a fearless one. So fearless, in fact, that when he sneaks into a conference for people who want to cure themselves of their homosexuality, he turns the experien
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- Author
- Derfner, Joel
- Publisher
- Broadway; Broadway Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780767924306
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Gender Studies, Psychology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (654 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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