Bad Kid: A Memoir―A Witty Journey Through Gay Identity, Goth Subculture, and the Trials of Growing Up in the 80s (P.S. (Paperback))

Bad Kid: A Memoir―A Witty Journey Through Gay Identity, Goth Subculture, and the Trials of Growing Up in the 80s (P.S. (Paperback))

<p>Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas. </p><p>In the summer of 1989, three Goth kids crossed a street in San Antonio. They had no idea that a deeply confused fourteen-year-old boy was watching. Their dyed hair, fishnets, and eyeliner were his first evidence of another world€"a place he desperately wanted to go. He just had no idea how to get there.</p><p>Somehow David Crabb had convinced himself that every guy preferred French-braiding his girlfriend€s hair to making out, and that the funny feelings he got watching <em>Silver Spoons </em>and <em>Growing Pains </em>had nothing to do with Ricky Schroeder or Kirk Cameron. But discovering George Michael€s <em>Faith </em>confirmed for David what every bully already knew: he was gay. Surviving high school, with its gym classes, locker rooms, and naked, glistening senior guys, would require impossible feats of denial. </p><p>What saved him was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being outsiders. David found himself enmeshed with misfits: wearing black, cutting class, staying out all night, drinking, tripping, chain-smoking, idolizing The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, and Joy Division€"and learning lessons about life and love along the way. </p><p>Richly detailed with 80s pop-culture, and including black and white photos throughout, BAD KID is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is poignant. Crabb€s journey through adolescence captures the essence of every person€s struggle to understand his or her true self.</p>