FOLLOWING MY PATH: Growing Up Gay in a Christian, Fundamentalist, Right - Wing, Conservative Family During The 1940's - 1960's

Imagine growing up in small Indiana towns in the 1940s in a very strict religious family and then realizing at the age of six that there was something sexually “wrong” with you. You had no name for it, and you didn't really understand it, but you knew it all the same. By the time you were seven and eight years old, you heard adults talk about sexual perversion and teenagers using the terms “faggot” or “queer” as if they were describing the plague. But you knew deep inside it was you they we...