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Lost Prophet by John D'Emilio6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Throughout, D’Emilio outlines his complicated relationship with his family while showing how his passion for activism influenced his decision to use research, writing, and teaching to build a strong LGBTQ movement. He shares his personal experiences of growing up in a conservative, tight-knit, multigenerational family, how he went from considering entering the priesthood to losing his faith and coming to terms with his same-sex desires. How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a family who worshipped Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported Richard Nixon produce an antiwar activist and pacifist? How does a family in which the word divorce was never spoken raise a son who comes to explore the hidden gay sexual underworld of New York City? Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D’Emilio’s coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood to an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan to Columbia University and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. ![]() At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. ![]() This event will be held in person at the Catholic Theological Union.Ībout the book: John D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. John D'Emilio will discuss Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties. ![]()
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