| International Standard Book Number |
9781645030577
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| International Standard Book Number |
1645030571
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| Personal Name |
Ryan, Hugh, 1978- author.
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| Title Statement |
My bad : a personal history of the queer nineties and beyond / Hugh Ryan.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Bold Type Books, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
pages cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"The 1990s were a decade of transformation. Globalization reshaped geopolitics, and the rise of the World Wide Web revolutionized technology forever. As society shifted from the analog to the digital at the turn of the century, LGBTQ life profoundly changed too. Increased visibility arrived, but at a heavy cost. In his most personal book yet, historian Hugh Ryan guides us through a pivotal decade for queer people and its aftershocks-from new breakthroughs in activism, to the early days of AOL chat rooms, and the eventual backlash to progress. Through the prism of his own experiences, Ryan maps how queer life transitioned from private to public in the late '90s and early aughts, reshaping the challenges and possibilities LGBTQ people navigated in the new millennium. On a Greyhound bus headed to Burning Man and the glittery dance floors of clubs in Manhattan and Berlin, a timeless and all-too-common story emerges: how a young queer person chooses silence to protect himself-only to spend another beautiful, complicated decade undoing his shame. Funny, stylish, and deliciously nostalgic, My Bad reckons with the gains and setbacks of a decade that reshaped queer life forever"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Ryan, Hugh, 1978-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gay men United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nineteen nineties.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gay people United States Social conditions 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gay people Social life and customs United States History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gay people Political activity United States History 20th century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies
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