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Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas.In the summer of 1989, three Goth kids crossed a street in San Antonio. They had no idea that a deeply confused fourteen-year-old boy was watching. Their dyed hair, fishnets, and eyeliner were his first evidence of another world—a place he desperately wanted to go. He just had no idea how to get there.Somehow David Crabb had convinced himself that every guy preferred French-braiding his girlfriend’s hair to making out, and that the funny feelings he got watching Silver Spoons and Growing Pains had nothing to do with Ricky Schroeder or Kirk Cameron. But discovering George Michael’s Faith confirmed for David what every bully already knew: he was gay. Surviving high school, with its gym classes, locker rooms, and naked, glistening senior guys, would require impossible feats of denial.What saved him was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being outsiders. David found himself enmeshed wi
- Author
- Crabb, David
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062371294
- Subjects
- Memoir, Family & Relationships, Humor
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (317 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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