If the World Hate You

In 2018, a play encouraged this author to synthesize experiences and thoughts stretching across the past 40 years of his life. This book is the result. Beginning in a remote and socially conservative village, the life described here is later molded by educational privilege and inhibited by expectations that question the place of gay men in schools. It is a life shaped by social pressures, informed by literature, challenged by politics and finding solace in great thinkers. It is a life gover...