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Author Dowd, Mark, 1960-

Title Queer and Catholic : a life of contradiction
Published London : Darton, Longman & Todd LTD, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (145 pages)
Contents Preface -- My father ... and the Persil advert -- Talking in my sleep -- First love -- Friar -- Michael -- When my father helped me bury my father -- Queer and Catholic -- Pablo -- Vale of tears -- Saved by a saint
Summary "This superb memoir of a gay, working class boy from Manchester exploring how to reconcile his sexuality with his Catholicism is all the more powerful because of his deep knowledge of and commitment to his faith. Spanning the late 1960s to the present day, Mark Dowd's Queer and Catholic chronicles a changing attitude to same-sex attraction over more than half a century and is packed with stories in turn funny, deeply moving and spiritually insightful ..."--Publisher's website
Notes Autobiography
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Subject Dowd, Mark, 1960-
Catholic gay people -- England -- Biography
Catholic gay men -- England -- Biography
Gay men -- England -- Biography
Gay journalists -- England -- Biography
Gay men -- Religious life -- England
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Catholic gay men
Catholic gays
Gay journalists
Gay men
Gay men -- Religious life
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
England
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780232533101
0232533105