Merle Miller On Being Different

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The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America--available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller's "On Being Different" is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for the "New York Times Magazine" entitled "What It Means To Be a Homosexual" in response to a homophobic article published in "Harper's Magazine." Described as "the most widely read and discussed essay of the decade," it carried the seed that would blossom into "On Being Different"--one of the earliest memoirs to affirm the importance of coming out.