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Zusatztext “Forty years after Miller’s article and book his eloquent voice is still poignant! still relevant to the ongoing struggle! our struggle for dignity and equal rights.” — Jonathan Ned Katz! Founder! Co-Director! OutHistory.org “Forty years later! the story Miller tells remains important and necessary to read! not only for both gay and straight readers to understand ‘the way it used to be!’ but because the issues Miller raised are still being discussed and argued about.” — Nancy Pearl “Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a searing indictment of social hypocrisy! written with a quite but burning passion… This book is not only a valuable historical document about the gay civil rights movement! but it is an American classic because of the beauty it achieves through its unflinchingly honest portrayal of the raw pain of rejection.” — David Carter! author Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution “Without indulging in sensationalism or special pleading but making it clear that he was writing directly from his own experience! [Miller] bridged the gap between the ‘straights’ and the ‘gays’ in a way that few recent writers on the subject have done. He also put himself on the line as a well-known writer! who was not afraid to publicly acknowledge his homosexuality.” — Publishers Weekly “Brilliant! moving! and one is obliged to add! courageous narrative of personal homosexuality.” — James A. Wechsler! columnist Informationen zum Autor Charles Kaiser (Afterword by) CHARLES KAISER is a former reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal , and a former press critic for News-week . He has also written for The Washington Post , The Los Angeles Times , The Guardian (London), New York magazine, and Vanity Fair , among others. He is the author of 1968 in America (1988) and The Gay Metropolis (1997), a history of gay life in America that won the Lambda Literary Award and was a New York Times Notable Book. Kaiser is a founder and former president of the New York chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton, where he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism. Merle Miller (Author) MERLE MILLER was born in a small town in lowa in 1919 and attended the University of lowa and the London School of Eco-nomics. Miller was awarded two Bronze Stars for bravery during World War II, both of which he later returned out of protest for American action in Vietnam. After the war, he worked as an editor at Harper's and Time magazine and was a contributing editor for The Nation . His books include the best-selling novels That Winter (1948) and A Gay and Melancholy Sound (1962), a comic nonfiction narrative about writing for television called Only You, Dick Daring! (1964), and several best-selling presidential biographies, including Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman (1974). In 1971, he responded to a homophobic article written by Joseph Epstein in Harper's with the raw, personal, and indicting essay that became On Being Different , making him one of the first prominent Americans to come out publicly. Miller died in 1986. Dan Savage (Foreword By) DAN SAVAGE is the author of the syndicated column "Savage Love" and the editorial director of The Stranger , Seattle's weekly newspaper. He is a regular contributor to public radio's This American Life and the author of Savage Love (1998); The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant (1999); Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America (2002); and The ...
