These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Young gay people still feel alienated and threatened and given what has happened in the United States during the past half-decade, possibly more so.” “I’m not sure much of anything in terms of social tension has been resolved since 1982, when Ed wrote his novel, or the 1950s, which is the autobiographical years during which the story unfolds. “I think the story is still disturbingly relevant today,” Alessandro told LGBTQ Nation. Forty years after its publication, the novel has been adapted into a beautiful graphic novel by writers Michael Carroll (White’s husband) and Brian Alessandro, with art by Igor Karash.
Narrated in the first person and suffused with White’s signature lyricism and sardonic wit, A Boy’s Own Story is considered a classic of LGBTQ+ literature.
First published in 1982, the book tells the coming-of-age story of a gay adolescent growing up in the 1950s as he comes to terms with his sexuality as well as navigating a difficult, fractured family life. For a particular generation of gay men, author Edmund White’s semi-autobiographical novel, A Boy’s Own Story, is a foundational text.
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