The Confession by James McGreevey
McGreevey describes his parents a bit defensively, trying to debunk the parents of gay boy stereotypes — the distant father and domineering mother. But one does get the sense he admires them even if they are a bit ordinary. It is eye opening to read about his adolescence. He says that he had an idea he was gay at 13 (seems about right to me — I was 11 or 12), but was frightened and hid it ever since and until his very public ‘confession’ at 47 when serving as governor of New Jersey and under the threat of lawsuit. Not a great book or even a great story, but some might find it an education about how homophobia can keep normal people in the closet for great periods of time and how their unfulfilled sexual desires can cause them great anguish and to take great risks.
