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Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies

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In 1973, a sweet-tempered, ferociously imaginative ten-year-old boy named Patrick Horrigan saw the TV premiere of the film version of Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand. His life would never be the same. Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies traces Horrigan's development from childhood to gay male adulthood through a series of visceral encounters with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s: Hello Dolly!, The Sound of Music, The Poseidon Adventure, Dog Day Afternoon , and The ...

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Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies 2001, University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN-13: 9780299161644

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Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies 1999, University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN-13: 9780299161606

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