Wild Dances: My Queer and Curious Journey to Eurovision

As a boy, William Lee Adams spent his days taking care of his quadriplegic brother, while worrying about his undiagnosed bipolar Vietnamese mother, and steering clear of his openly racist and homophobic father. Too shy and anxious to even speak until he was six years old, it seemed unlikely William would ever leave small-town Georgia.



In time, William discovered that learning was both a refuge and a ticket out. So even as he struggled to understand and to get others to accept both his sexual...