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In 1973, a sweet-tempered, ferociously imaginative ten-year-old boy named Patrick Horrigan saw the TV premiere of the film version of Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand. His life would never be the same. Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies traces Patrick's development from childhood to gay male adulthood as a series of encounters, sometimes mournful, sometimes hysterically funny, with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s. Describing his favorite movies as if they told the story of his own life, Patrick Horrigan turns popular culture upside down…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2001Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies, Joan Larkin and David Bergman, Series Editors)University of Wisconsin Press · 250 pages · 9780299161644
- Other · English · 1999University of Wisconsin Press · 227 pages · 9780299161606
- Other · English · 1999University of Wisconsin Press · 9780299161637
BiographyCase studiesGay menMotion picturesPsychological aspectsPsychological aspects of Motion picturesPsychologyGays, identity