Hidden : Reflections on Gay Life, AIDS, and Spiritual Desire / Richard Giannone.
2012
BX4705.G525 A3 2012
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Title
Hidden : Reflections on Gay Life, AIDS, and Spiritual Desire / Richard Giannone.
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ISBN
9780823241873
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (198 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823241873 doi
Call Number
BX4705.G525 A3 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
282.092 B
Summary
Hidden-Richard Giannone's searingly honest, richly insightful memoir-eloquently captures the author's transformation from a solitary gay academic to a dedicated caregiver as well as a sexually and spiritually committed man. Always alone, always fearful, he initially resisted the duty to look after his dying female relatives. But his mother's fall into dementia changed all that. Her vulnerability opened this middle-aged man to the love of another man, a former priest and Jersey boy like himself. Together the two men saw the old woman to her death and did the same for Giannone's sister. In Hidden Giannone uncovers how, ultimately, these experiences moved him closer to participating in the vitality he believed pulsed in the world but had always eluded him.The mothering life of this gay partnership evolved alongside the AIDS crisis and within and against Italian American culture that reflected the Catholic Church's discountenancing of homosexual love. Giannone vividly weaves his reflections on gay life in Greenwich Village and his spiritual journey as a gay man and Catholic into his experience of caring for the women of his family.In Hidden Giannone recounts a gripping religious conversion, drawing on the wisdom of the ancient desert mothers and fathers of Egypt and Palestine. Because he was raised a Catholic, the shift is not from nothing to something. Rather, it is away from the modeling power of institutional Christianity to the tempering influence of homosexuality on the Gospel. Gay or straight, so long as we remain hidden from ourselves, the true God remains hidden from us.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
1. An Unfurnished Life
2. The Unexpected Moment
3. School for Change
4. School for Trust
5. Entering My True Country
6. Love's Hiding Places
7. Death and the Remainder of Life
8. Of Guilt and Sorrow
9. Heart's Memory
Acknowledgments
Contents
1. An Unfurnished Life
2. The Unexpected Moment
3. School for Change
4. School for Trust
5. Entering My True Country
6. Love's Hiding Places
7. Death and the Remainder of Life
8. Of Guilt and Sorrow
9. Heart's Memory
Acknowledgments