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All out, a father and son confront the hard truths that made them better men, Kevin Newman & Alex Newman

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All out, a father and son confront the hard truths that made them better men, Kevin Newman & Alex Newman

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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illustrationsportraits

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All out

Responsibility statement

Kevin Newman & Alex Newman

Sub title

a father and son confront the hard truths that made them better men

Summary

When Kevin Newman's son, Alex, came out to his parents at age 17, they immediately told him they accepted him, and they meant it. But they were also panicked. Gay kids are far more likely to attempt suicide than straight kids are. How could they head off bullying and discrimination? How could they steer Alex away from the sexually charged scene online? Was the gay part of town safe for a cute teenage boy? The Newmans felt they were in a new world, with its own customs and culture, and no road map. Kevin couldn't find any advice or accounts written by fathers of gay men; in the literature, fathers were uniformly depicted as rejecting. Today, a decade later, father and son retrace the steps (and missteps) they took as they became each other's role models

Target audience

adult

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