My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey
by Charles Rowan Beye
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My Husband and My Wives: A Gay's Man's Odyssey is the memoir of a man looking back over eight tumultuous decades at the complications of discovering at puberty that he is attracted to other men. The ordeal of remaining true to what his libido tells him is right, in the midst of a disapproving and sometimes hostile society, is one side of his story. Another is the impulsive decision he made as a young adult to marry a woman who fascinated him. This led him into entirely unanticipated show more territory. He found himself suddenly a husband, a widower, a groom for a second time, and, finally, the father of four children and grandfather of six, though throughout it all, he never abandoned his erotic involvement with men. Perhaps most extraordinary is the story's happy conclusion: Charles Rowan Beye's wedding four years ago to the man who has been his companion for the last twenty years. The remarkable journey from pariah to patriarch is told with an eloquence, an honesty, and a sense of humor that are uniquely Beye's own. A personal history that is also a history of evolving social mores, this wonderfully original, challenging, life- and love-affirming account could only have been written by the unconventional man who lived through it all. show lessTags
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- People/Characters
- Charles Rowan Beye; Ruth Beye (nee Ketchum); Mary Beye (nee Powers); Penny Beye (nee Pendleton); Richard Deppe
- Important places
- Iowa, USA; New York, New York, USA
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to the many people named or described in its pages who are no longer with us to tell their versions of what I describe herein. To them, and to those who still walk this earth, I give my devoted thanks... (show all) for making me the person I am. (Author's Note)
- First words
- In May 2005, the woman I had married on the sixteenth of June, 1956, lay dying in an assisted living facility about ten blocks from my home.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Not exactly Dynasty or The Forsyte Saga, but a family, nonetheless.
- Publisher's editor
- Galassi, Jonathan
- Blurbers
- Maddox, Brenda; Hamilton, Jane
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- Genres
- Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, LGBTQ+, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 306.76 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Sexual relations Sexual orientation, transgender identity, intersexuality
- LCC
- HQ75.8 .B49 .A3 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Homosexuality. Lesbianism
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- (3.10)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
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