Boys and oil, growing up gay in a fractured land, Taylor Brorby
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Boys and oil, growing up gay in a fractured land, Taylor Brorby
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Boys and oil
Oclc number
1272856881
Responsibility statement
Taylor Brorby
Sub title
growing up gay in a fractured land
Summary
"From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking." In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections"--, Provided by publisher
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- Biographies
- Gay men -- North Dakota -- Biography
- Brorby, Taylor
- Déversements de pétrole -- Aspect de l'environnement -- États-Unis
- LGBTQ+ biographies
- Homosexuels masculins -- Dakota du Nord -- Biographies
- LGBTQ+ people
- Oil spills + Environmental aspects
- LGBTQ+ literature
- Gay biographies
- Environmentalists
- Gay men
- LGBTQ
- Environmentalists -- North Dakota -- Biography
- Queer biographies
- Autobiographies
- United States
- Oil spills + Environmental aspects -- United States
- North Dakota
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- Biographies
- Gay men -- North Dakota -- Biography
- Brorby, Taylor
- Déversements de pétrole -- Aspect de l'environnement -- États-Unis
- LGBTQ+ biographies
- Homosexuels masculins -- Dakota du Nord -- Biographies
- LGBTQ+ people
- Oil spills + Environmental aspects
- LGBTQ+ literature
- Gay biographies
- Environmentalists
- Gay men
- LGBTQ
- Environmentalists -- North Dakota -- Biography
- Queer biographies
- Autobiographies
- United States
- Oil spills + Environmental aspects -- United States
- North Dakota
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- Author1
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