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Contents Foreword
• *Preface• *Childhood in Sundown Town• *A Star is Born• *Higher Education• *Iowa Boy in the Windy City• *“New York Is Where I’d Rather Stay”• *Moving Up in the World: Cape Cod• *Rubbing Elbows With the Rich and Famous• *The Model Student• *My Son, the Banker• *The Not-So-Innocents Abroad• *Nikos• *The Big A• *Epilogue
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Brian Ashby
reviewed The Golden Boy on January 25, 2012
The Golden Boy
This book was a good read, although Melson was an ass. He was every bit the stereotypical gay man: mean, bitchy and catty, obsessed with his looks, obsessed with the finer things in life, obsessed with other men's looks, obsessed with penis size, and obsessed with having as much sex as possible. Unfortunately, that was his ultimate downfall as he contracted AIDS and died in 1992. He wasn't a likable person, but it was fascinating to read about a slice of gay life from the late 1970s to about 1985.
I only have one real quarrel with a detail, and that is he claimed to have heard Don Henley's song "Dirty Laundry" played in a club twice in one night, in either 1977 or 1978. Well, that song wasn't released until 1982. In fact, the Eagles hadn't even broken up at the time he claimed to have heard the song, so none of them had released their solo albums (except Joe Walsh, who had a solo career all along). It's too bad he's not around to ask why he chose to include that false memory; otherwise, I really liked this book.
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