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Podcast: Allusions: LGBTQ Writing
Episode: Adam Stevens - Rainbow Reader
Description: The name of the book clearly defines the story of one boy’s sexual awakening. It gives the account of the crisis that leads him onto the streets following his parents’ realization he is gay. Growing up gay had been hard on Georgie. The multitude of beatings, the battle wounds and bruises, the forced religion to exorcise the un-pure, unholy demons from his purely homosexual soul, culminating in his escape and eventual discovery by an old friend who takes him under his wing, showing him what love is for the first time in his life.But Geor...