LEADER 03915nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910463564503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613893321 010 $a0-8232-4187-4 010 $a1-283-58087-X 010 $a0-8232-4665-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823241873 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065564 035 $a(EBL)3239634 035 $a(OCoLC)923763555 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000600651 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11355440 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600651 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10601599 035 $a(PQKB)11015074 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239634 035 $a(OCoLC)808778756 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14136 035 $a(DE-B1597)554935 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823241873 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC976988 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239634 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10561966 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389332 035 $a(OCoLC)801405642 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL976988 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065564 100 $a20111118d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHidden$b[electronic resource] $ereflections on gay life, AIDS, and spiritual desire /$fRichard Giannone 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-4184-X 327 $aAn unfurnished life -- The unexpected moment -- School for change -- School for trust -- Entering my true country -- Love's hiding places -- Death and the remainder of life -- Of guilt and sorrow -- Heart's memory. 330 $aHidden?Richard Giannone?s searingly honest, richly insightful memoir?eloquently captures the author?s transformation from a solitary gay academic to a dedicated caregiver as well as a sexually and spiritually committed man. Always alone, always fearful, he initially resisted the duty to look after his dying female relatives. But his mother?s fall into dementia changed all that. Her vulnerability opened this middle-aged man to the love of another man, a former priest and Jersey boy like himself. Together the two men saw the old woman to her death and did the same for Giannone?s sister. In Hidden Giannone uncovers how, ultimately, these experiences moved him closer to participating in the vitality he believed pulsed in the world but had always eluded him.The mothering life of this gay partnership evolved alongside the AIDS crisis and within and against Italian American culture that reflected the Catholic Church?s discountenancing of homosexual love. Giannone vividly weaves his reflections on gay life in Greenwich Village and his spiritual journey as a gay man and Catholic into his experience of caring for the women of his family.In Hidden Giannone recounts a gripping religious conversion, drawing on the wisdom of the ancient desert mothers and fathers of Egypt and Palestine. Because he was raised a Catholic, the shift is not from nothing to something. Rather, it is away from the modeling power of institutional Christianity to the tempering influence of homosexuality on the Gospel. Gay or straight, so long as we remain hidden from ourselves, the true God remains hidden from us. 606 $aCatholic gay men$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aCare of the sick 606 $aCaring$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCatholic gay men 615 0$aCare of the sick. 615 0$aCaring$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church. 676 $a282.092 676 $aB 700 $aGiannone$b Richard$01028174 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463564503321 996 $aHidden$92452253 997 $aUNINA