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The Unofficial Gay Manual
by Kevin DiLallo
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Paperback
Publisher: Main Street Books
Jack Krumholtz
Featuring essays, multiple-choice and true-false tests, lists, sidebars, and charts, the humorous but useful handbook for the gay lifestyle includes ""10 Things Not to Say When Telling Your Mother"" and ""A Guide to Gay Flora and Fauna.""
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| This is funny? |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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I found this book to illustrate every stereotype of the gay man that I'm not. It's tired. This book could have been written any Friday night by the drag queens that perform at GiGi's in Detroit. Sometimes I found this book to actually be painful, like I was reading about my own foolish mistakes that I made when I came out in 1984...like trusting a gay man to be a real pal. Dull, dull, dull.
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| Funny..Informative...and Sometimes Moving |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I agree with some of the reviews that this book exploits stereotypes at times, but for the most part it is quite funny. I laughed heartily as the Author listed "10 Things NOT to say to your Mother when Coming Out." They list 10 "Musts" CD's and movies and even mention that the gay-rights movement began with Judy Garland's death. The inclusion of "Where the Boys Are" ( a listing of places to go to meet men) is dated and not always accurate. Still an enjoyable read
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| Lent it out and never saw it again... |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I first bought this hilarious book in 1995 at the UBC bookstore, and its humour helped me through a difficult time. Having grown up in small-town Alberta, I had always associated being openly gay with shame and fear, but this book light-heartedly revealed a world I had no idea of (remember, this was pre-Internet time and there were no bookstores with gay and lesbian literature sections.) I read it several times before lending it to a friend, and both were soon long gone. I've been looking for it ever since and just today I chanced upon it here and immediately ordered it.
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| A Little too Close to be Funny |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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A laughing friend thrust this book into my hands, saying that it had really made him laugh. I took it home, and sat down with it, and started to chuckle. But by the end of the book, I wasn't laughing nearly as much as I thought I would. Here's the deal: It's not really all that funny, because although it's right on the nose and pokes a lot of fun at our own gay ideosyncracies, the book is also showing just how shallow, lacking, and fundamentally messed up gay culture is. Now, I'm certainly not going to say that this wasn't a pleasure to read, it just left me with a melancholy feeling: Gosh, isn't it sad that we're pretty much just a joke. It was fun, but sometimes bitter, light, but sometimes kind of mean, this book seems to adeptly sum up the so-called gay culture: Laughable, but not all that funny sometimes, and very often pretty damned sad and lacking in self-esteem.
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| Whimsical and true to life too. |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Delightful, expert mixing of deadpan-style narration and photographs. Thoughtfully-written work is another fabulous creative triumph for gay and lesbian brethren. I recommend "...Living The Lifestyle" for skeptical "straight" folks as a great ice-breaker, conversation-starter, and laugh-inducer. So much in book sounds "true to life", e.g., beginning and ending relationships in tongue-in-cheek manner. Just seeing the cover of this book always brings a genuine smile to my 37-year-old face. Carefree guy.
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