TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brorby,Taylor
TI  - Boys and oil: growing up gay in a fractured land 
SN  - 9781324090861
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Brorby, Taylor.
KW  - Gay men
KW  - North Dakota
KW  - Biography
KW  - Environmentalists
KW  - Oil spills
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - LGBTQ+
N2  - "From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking." In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections"--
ER  -