num_pages: 250
description: In 1973, a sweet-tempered, ferociously imaginative ten-year-old boy named Patrick Horrigan saw the TV premiere of the film version of Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand. His life would never be the same. Widescreen Growing Up Gay at the Movies traces Horrigan’s development from childhood to gay male adulthood through a series of visceral encounters with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970 Hello Dolly!, The Sound of Music, The Poseidon Adventure, Dog Day Afternoon , and The Wiz.
language: English
title: Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies
titlecomplete: Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies, Joan Larkin and David Bergman, Series Editors)
genres: Memoir, Gay, Biography
ratings_count: 5
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press