Trapped: Memoirs of a Gay Boy in the Fifties and Sixties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781636924526)

Experience:

- The wonder of the earliest childhood memories.

- The delight of the unexpected discovery and joy of sexual feelings and sexual play.

- The overwhelming power of first love.

- The brutal and completely unexpected shock of homosexual insight.

- The unrelenting prejudice and judgment of a hostile society.

- The persistent and literally paralyzing fear of exposure.

- The profound sadness of loneliness and of alone knowing what I was.

- The unquenchable fear of complete separation from God's love.

- The hopelessness of a child facing eternal damnation.

- The chronic persistent worry of what family, friends, and peers would think of me and do if my cover was ever blown.

- Sexual abuse: unendurable confusion and loss of innocence

- Spiritual explosion: understanding, gratitude, and peace

This is a letter to the heterosexual world toward understanding and acceptance on behalf of present and future generations of gay children.