Crawling Through Thorns
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pam99
of Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland United Kingdom on 10/30/2011
This book is in a Controlled Release!
pam99 of Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland United Kingdom on 10/30/2011 This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
bought to read and release
An amazing and important book, which all LGBT people should read. This is our history,and most of what happened in this book took place within my lifetime. Absolutely awful, but deeply touching. I've passed on to Aileen.
given to Aileen
Journal Entry 4 by aileenconnor at -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Saturday, December 10, 2011
Even for the reader who knows her L&G sex-politics history, Crawling Through Thorns* comes at you like a brick in the face.
John Idris Jones tells his own story as a boy then a man, stripped, shocked & denied oxygen by the communities & culture of mid-seventies small-town Wales. Given 'treatment', his is amongst the most powerful indictments I've ever read, of legitimised psychiatric abuse. He holds on tight to his god & faith, while most christians turn their backs; they'll allow him grace, if he'll live their lie.
For any individual facing inhumanity I believe this story gives a foothold & affirmation.
For every individual today who feels free to be who they are, this story affirms those who made it possible.
And for every individual opposed on 'moral grounds' to same-sex equity, this story will tell you what you really should already know.
*passed on to Dorothy 7/12/11
John Idris Jones tells his own story as a boy then a man, stripped, shocked & denied oxygen by the communities & culture of mid-seventies small-town Wales. Given 'treatment', his is amongst the most powerful indictments I've ever read, of legitimised psychiatric abuse. He holds on tight to his god & faith, while most christians turn their backs; they'll allow him grace, if he'll live their lie.
For any individual facing inhumanity I believe this story gives a foothold & affirmation.
For every individual today who feels free to be who they are, this story affirms those who made it possible.
And for every individual opposed on 'moral grounds' to same-sex equity, this story will tell you what you really should already know.
*passed on to Dorothy 7/12/11
passed to Dorothy
