Title: Outcast Author: Stuart Thorogood Published by: Gay Men's Press, 1999 ISBN: 0-85449-282-8 [trade paperback, 149 pages]
A coming-out tale of working-class England in the late 1990s.This is Mark Holly's story. Mark is twenty years old. He doesn't want to admit he's gay; not even that he's bisexual. He comes from a normal, working-class family. His dad's a plumber; his mum's a housewife. He plays in a rock band, and wants a normal life just like his friends, so he finds himself a girlfriend, Grace. Things seem to be under control until Mark meets Andrew, a gay bartender, and sex and love suddenly come alive for him. Mark learns that being gay is nothing to be ashamed of, but then his family find out and all hell breaks loose.
A coming-out tale of the late 1990s, when being gay may be ok in the anonymous big city, but not yet on a housing estate in a small English town.
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