Growing Up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law

Growing Up Queer in Australia

Growing Up

Benjamin Law with Thom Mitchell, Adolfo Aranjuez, Holly Throsby, Michael Farrell, Roz Bellamy, Alice Boyle, Jax Jacki Brown, Jean Velasco, Gemma Killen, Nic Holas, Tim Sinclair, Beau Kondos, Samuel Leighton-Dore, Vivian Quynh Pham, Rebecca Shaw, Henry von Doussa, Nayuka Gorrie, Fiona Wright, Stephanie Convery, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Nadine Smit, Jack Kirne, David Marr, Mike Mullins, Thomas Wilson-White, Phoebe Hart, M’ck McKeague, Tim McGuire, Heather Joan Day, Anthony Nocera, Kelly Parry, Atul Joshi, Natalie Macken, Oliver Reeson, Aron Koh Paul, Nathan Mills, Patrick Lenton, Yamiko Marama, Dang Nguyen, Steve Dow, Thinesh Thillainadarajah, Joo-Inn Chew, Justine Hyde, Scott McKinnon, Sue-Ann Post, Cindy Zhou

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced

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‘No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard fr...

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