Dead Boys Can't Dance: Sexual Orientation, Masculinity, and Suicide
by Michel Dorais
2021-01-01 13:09:58
Dead Boys Can't Dance: Sexual Orientation, Masculinity, and Suicide
by Michel Dorais
2021-01-01 13:09:58
Dead Boys Can't Dance is a groundbreaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five. North American society has been reluctant to recognize that there is a link between the so...
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Dead Boys Can't Dance is a groundbreaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five. North American society has been reluctant to recognize that there is a link between the social stigmatization of homosexuality and the high level of suicide attempts by adolescent boys who are homosexual or are identified as homosexual by their peers. By examining first-person accounts from teenage boys and young men, Michel Dorais sheds light on why some of them attempt to take their own lives.
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