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A compelling, intensely personal memoir recalls growing up poor in the South, the son of a fundamentalist preacher and self-taught mother, describing his mother's determination that he would attend college, his discovery of a world beyond poverty where he could live openly as a gay man, and the need to hide his identity in his career as a high-school teacher.
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Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-LGBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his elementary school days in the conservative South, where "faggot" became more familiar to him than his own name. Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son is that rare memoir that is both a riveting personal story and an inside account of a critical chapter in our recent history. Creating safe schools for all youth is now a central part of the progressive agenda in American education—and Kevin Jennings is at the forefront of that fight. Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son earned an A- in Entertainment Weekly, was featured in Salon and The Advocate, and was called "a great read" by People.
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