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Drifting Toward Love
Kai Wright
Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
Beacon Press
January 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 0807079685
EAN: 9780807079683
Hardcover
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Multicultural | Non-Fiction
Drifting Toward Love tells the stories of Manny, Julius,
Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color
desperately searching for life's basic necessities: homes
that provide more than shelter and security against more
than violence or disease. As these teenagers navigate the
rocky waters of adolescence, they wade through pains and
passions that are typical of any young person coming of
age. But they do so with few resources—material or
emotional—in a world where the cards are stacked against
their success. Journalist Kai Wright paints vivid, intimate portraits of
these young men's sometimes tragic, often heroic lives.
Manny is a working-class city kid making awkward teenage
discoveries about his sexuality. In a troubled relationship
with his mother and a stifling, combative school
environment, he clumsily elbows out enough space to find
himself. In the process, he and best friend Jason move from
a budding love based on videogames and music to a troubled
bond held together by drugs and sex for money. In one
devastating instant, Manny will realize the demons Jason
truly faces. Out of the wreckage of the life he builds with
Jason, Manny drifts into an explosive social movement,
fighting for public space for queer youth, and finds his
calling as an activist.
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