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Podcast: Allusions: LGBTQ Writing
Episode: Michael Caputo - Chameleon: A Memoir
Description: In 2021, Caputo’s second book (CHAMELEON: A Memoir) was published. This memoir shows another side of the author in which he vividly describes his harrowing journey coming out of the closet and living authentically, post-Stonewall, pre-HIV/AIDS epidemic, and thereafter. In addition, Caputo discusses how the Christian Right has been notorious for using their Bible to discriminate and relentlessly trying to derail the progress of the LGBTQ+ community while denying them their fundamental human and American rightsIn 2008, Michael Caputo started his own business. He did that for six years and became one of the most famous ma...