Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story By Paul Monette

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The National Book Award–winning coming-out memoir. “One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life” (LA Weekly). Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving . . . and closeted. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid suspected of being a “homo” would routinely be beaten up, Monette kept his secret throughout his adolescence. He wrestled with his sexuality for the first thirty years of his life, priding himself on his ability to “pass” for straight. The story of his journey to adulthood and to self-acceptance with grace and honesty, this intimate portrait of a young man’s struggle with his own desires is witty, humorous, and deeply felt. Before his death of complications from AIDS in 1995, Monette was an outspoken activist crusading for gay rights. Becoming a Man shows his courageous path to stand up for his own right to love and be loved. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

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First, let me say that I absolutely loved this book (at least, up to the end where I got distracted by my own dizzy discretion or prudish mindset perhaps, with such a vast cast of characters fixated on sex, as a means to an end, or the brash start of some anonymous sort in the search for love & all that that entails), together with Paul’s overall ability to write with some certain clarity on exactly how he felt about himself, both emotionally & physically, as well as academically about the peculiar persona of his human equation & also the world-at-large, which was the object of his righteous aka pseudo-religious repression.Secondly, Paul wrote the poignant & truthful subtitle/headline or the first-line with regard to love, or a flight of fancy perhaps, but then again he wasn’t quite sure what he meant by love, at the time & after such a short duration of acquaintance; since we, as in the royal ‘we’ (to include myself) are often attracted to the object of our desire by oddly different aspects of another person’s being or presence, that the infinite word, love doesn’t always mean all-inclusive at the start, as we are never always in control of our unbiased faculties at such a time, in order to comprehend the subsequent consequences of such a substantial statement, in my opinion, based on what feels like a century of my own dumb-founded experience. Yet I don’t mean to sound so saintly!But then I digress from Paul’s main point that he was looking for love when, in fact, as he said, he couldn’t even love himself.‘...to break the final bonds of self-hatred so I could begin to love.’‘...my eagerness to talk all night if it made me learn to love a little better.’‘...and get to know myself.’Thus, another favorite & comparative line I thought, at first, to use as the subtitle/heading for this review, in Paul’s always insightful & very often humorous words -‘I remember thinking we could make it work if we could always be on vacation.’If you can judge not the man, nor whatever deed affects your disfavor, but rather the overall attempt by Paul to find an acceptable answer to his decades of dilemma, not that it was his blatant & unmistakable fault in any way, but that the thing he both fought & sought was his default by nature to torment himself to take action, rather than inaction.I think, fear like love, is often indescribable until you tell someone your story, so they can relate on some level & probably still not completely understand the bare necessities of such a naked undertaking. Still, Paul didn’t hide from both the mental & physical altercation.I no sooner started this book & decided I wanted to meet the author, if only to shake his hand in respect for both his intricate work & mammoth effort, or recognition of something noble (like the last scene in the 2016 movie, ‘La La Land’ when the 2 main characters acknowledge their past lives together & divergent mutual growth, but still find it hard to accept the emotional truth of such an adventure) and/or thanks again to Paul for being so brave & bold, in the face of so much personal fear & universal disdain, or so it would seem from my separate & silent perspective.At any rate, I was prepared to figure out where he lived, so I could make a pilgrimage of some sort, or maybe just in my mind at the start of my exuberance for a new favorite author, when I discovered that Paul had died shortly after he wrote this book.I can’t imagine how he kept his mind so focused in the present & still could remember so many details from his past, which ultimately gave him what he was looking for finally, after such a long time.Paul Monette’s Memoir, ‘Becoming A Man’ was published in 1992, just 3-years before he died (at age 49) in 1995.I would like to propose a toast that we never forget this literary intellect & political activist, going forward, each & every year on the anniversary of his birth, October 16th, or whenever the urge should move you to tears, to remember the man who cared so much for others, as he reminds us in his melancholy yet optimistic memoir – ‘We are creatures of the cruelties we witness.’Esther B. Fein wrote in Paul’s obituary in the New York Times (dated February 12th 1995); ‘He kept writing until the end. When he was found to have full-blown AIDS (in 1993), he wrote his last book ‘Last Watch of the Night’ while hooked up to three intravenous tubes and taking a mound of oral medications daily.’Rest in Peace, Paul!Book review by Jack Dunsmoor, author of the book, OK2BG.

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