G361 Sweet Tooth A Memoir
Title: Sweet Tooth, a Memoir Author: Tim Anderson First copyright date: 2014 Type of book: Diabetes, homosexuality, being gay, acceptance, high school, relationships, hiding self, 1980s up until 1990s? travel, New Jersey, disco and drug culture General subject matter: A young man who has obsession with sweets discovers that he has diabetes as well as the fact that he's gay. Special features: N/A Price: $14.95 ISBN/ASIN: 978-1477818077 Summary: What’s a sweets-loving young boy growing up gay in North Carolina in the eighties supposed to think when he’s diagnosed with type 1 diabetes? That God is punishing him, naturally. This was, after all, when gay-hating Jesse Helms was his senator, AIDS was still the boogeyman, and no one was saying, “It gets better.” And if stealing a copy of a gay porno magazine from the newsagent was a sin, then surely what the men inside were doing to one another was much worse. Sweet Tooth is Tim Anderson’s uproarious memoir of ...