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When I Knew is a collection of smart, hilarious, and often poignant stories about that revelation for all gay men and women: when they first knew. In this gorgeously illustrated, cleverly designed, and colorful book, acclaimed fashion and celeb-rity photographer Robert Trachtenberg brings humor and style to the EUREKA! moments of more than eighty contributors, including B. D. Wong, Arthur Laurents, Simon Doonan, Stephen Fry, Marc Shaiman, Michael Musto, and more. Also mixed in are tales about when parents knew and when everyone else knew, as well as laugh-out-loud coming-out stories.

Readers will fall in love with these anecdotes, from the seven-year-old who looked under the television set to sneak a peek under Tarzan''s loincloth, to the inquisitive grandmother who asked her grandson, You don''t like a girl to get married? You prefer a boy?, to the courageous field trip participant who passed up the universal favorite burger-and-fry combo in

When I Knew

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    A Paperback / softback by Robert Trachtenberg

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: 31/05/2005
      ISBN13: 9780060571467, 978-0060571467
      ISBN10: 0060571462

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      When I Knew is a collection of smart, hilarious, and often poignant stories about that revelation for all gay men and women: when they first knew. In this gorgeously illustrated, cleverly designed, and colorful book, acclaimed fashion and celeb-rity photographer Robert Trachtenberg brings humor and style to the EUREKA! moments of more than eighty contributors, including B. D. Wong, Arthur Laurents, Simon Doonan, Stephen Fry, Marc Shaiman, Michael Musto, and more. Also mixed in are tales about when parents knew and when everyone else knew, as well as laugh-out-loud coming-out stories.

      Readers will fall in love with these anecdotes, from the seven-year-old who looked under the television set to sneak a peek under Tarzan''s loincloth, to the inquisitive grandmother who asked her grandson, You don''t like a girl to get married? You prefer a boy?, to the courageous field trip participant who passed up the universal favorite burger-and-fry combo in

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