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Walsh, Mikey.
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Walsh, Mikey.
Romanies -- England -- Biography.
Young gay men -- England -- Biography.
Romanies -- England -- Social life and customs.
England -- Ethnic relations.
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Walsh, Mikey.
Walsh, Mikey.
Romanies -- England -- Biography.
Young gay men -- England -- Biography.
Romanies -- England -- Social life and customs.
England -- Ethnic relations.
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Gypsy
boy
:
my
life
in the
secret
world
of the
Romany
Gypsies
/ Mikey Walsh.
by
Walsh, Mikey.
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Call #:
921 W226gb
Subjects
Walsh, Mikey.
Romanies -- England -- Biography.
Young gay men -- England -- Biography.
Romanies -- England -- Social
life
and customs.
England -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN:
9780312622084 (hardcover)
0312622082 (hardcover)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
278 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"First published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton" -- T.p. verso.
Contents:
The birth of a pig
boy
-- Wonder years -- Sisters grim -- Taking a punch -- A bungalow with Barbie graveyard -- A school and a big city -- Welcome to Warren Woods -- The club -- Boot camp -- That evil Bowers girl -- Kevin -- The monster in the woods -- Fate of the Munchkin Queen -- Moving on -- Twelve-year-old man -- Take me with you -- Regret -- A new start -- The wrath of Frankie -- Sex education -- Caleb's plan -- Today.
Summary:
Mikey was born into a
Romany
Gypsy
family. They lived in a closeted community, and little is known of their way of
life
. After centuries of persecution
Gypsies
are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows all too well. Growing up, he didn't go to school, he seldom mixed with non-Gypsies and the caravan became his
world
. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonizing decision, to stay and keep secrets, or escape to find somewhere to belong. His father and grandfather were champion bareknuckle boxers in England's
Gypsy
community. But Mikey had no interest in fighting. He was proud of his heritage and loved his mother and sister, but as he grew older he came to realize he had a
secret
that would never be accepted: he was gay. This memoir reveals, for the first time, what
life
is really like among the
Romany
Gypsies
. It is a culture apart, one that is equally more criminal and more puritanical than our own.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
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Central Library
Adult Biography
921 W226gb
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