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- y The High Price of Heaven St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1999 Z991685 1999 selected work essay St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1999
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Appears in:
- y The High Price of Heaven St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1999 Z991685 1999 selected work essay Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2000
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y
The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing
Graeme Aitken
(editor),
Ringwood
:
Penguin
,
2002
Z983883
2002
anthology
short story
essay
correspondence
prose
poetry
extract
criticism
Ringwood
:
Penguin
,
2002
pg.
163-181
Note: Slightly revised version.
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y
The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing
Graeme Aitken
(editor),
Ringwood
:
Penguin
,
2002
Z983883
2002
anthology
short story
essay
correspondence
prose
poetry
extract
criticism
Ringwood
:
Penguin
,
2002
pg.
163-181
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Appears in:
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y
Growing Up Queer in Australia
Benjamin Law
(editor),
Collingwood
:
Black Inc.
,
2019
15891759
2019
anthology
autobiography
'I marked the day in my adolescent diary with a single blank page.
The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.
I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.
All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.
I became acutely aware of the parts of myself that were unpalatable to queers who grew up in the city.
I was thirty-eight and figured it was time to come out to her.
That’s when I know it’s not going anywhere – the gay.
I felt like I had been dunked into an episode of The L Word and I wasn’t given the script.
No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.
My queerness was born in a hot dry land that was never ceded.
I finally admitted what my feelings for Dirty Dancing–era Patrick Swayze had clearly been indicating for some time.
Even now, I sometimes think that I don’t know my own desire.'Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australia assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity. Spanning diverse places, eras, genders, ethnicities and experiences, these are the stories of growing up queer in Australia.
'For better or worse, sooner or later, life conspires to reveal you to yourself, and this is growing up.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2019 pg. 6-9
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y
Growing Up Queer in Australia
Benjamin Law
(editor),
Collingwood
:
Black Inc.
,
2019
15891759
2019
anthology
autobiography
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