The Milkman’s on His Way Audiobook Libro.fm

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Ewan Macrae is gay At the turn of the 1980s being queer in a Cornish seaside town seems impossible
The teenage world he lives in is obsessed with girls jobs and surfing yet the handsome Leslie his ripped surfing buddy preoccupies Ewans thoughts
Unsure if his parents will ever accept his sexuality Ewan knows that in his claustrophobic hometown hell never fully be himself Perhaps in a bustling and faraway city like London there is a whole new world waiting
Published by the ground breaking Gay Mens Press in 1982 The Milkmans on His Way was one of the first explicitly queer young adult novels to appear in the UK For many gay teenagers of the early 1980s it was a rare chance to read lifeaffirming stories that put their experiences at the centre
The book was celebrated on publication but scandal and controversy followed later Published just before the AIDS pandemic took hold The Milkmans on His Way was hated by the Daily Mail and later suppressed under Section 28 due to public outcry about its obscene sexually explicit contents
For some this honest tale of young love was an affront to their prejudices To some of us it was a sign we were not alone It remains as touching and relevant as ever a gay classic Sir Ian McKellen