What Tried to Kill Me Had Many Names: A Memoir of Spirit, Sex, and Survival - Paperback
by Marc Gauss
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marc GaussTheme:Sex & Gender/Gay, Topical/LGBTQ+Publish date:9/15/2026Pages:260
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sibling Rivalry Press LLC.ISBN-13:9781943977963ISBN-10:1943977968UPC:9781943977963Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Memoirs, LGBTQ+ Studies, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Gay StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.354Product ID:SC6QB23YH0
What Tried to Kill Me Had Many Names is a fearless memoir of spirit, sex, and survival. Raised in a strict Christian home where every desire was measured against sin, Marc Gauss grew up believing that love-especially the kind he felt for other men-was something that had to be hidden, prayed away, or punished. As he moves from small-town boyhood to college campuses, locker rooms, churches, and the neon freedom of gay nightlife, Gauss confronts the contradictions between the life he was taught to live and the truth of who he is. Along the way he encounters cruelty, rejection, ecstatic freedom, and moments of devastating despair-including the kind of spiritual shame that nearly costs him his life. Told with disarming candor, humor, desire, and vulnerability, What Tried to Kill Me Had Many Names is the story of a man who survived religious judgment, sexual awakening, and the many identities others tried to force upon him. It is a memoir about reclaiming joy, owning one's body, and learning-finally-to live without apology.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sibling Rivalry Press LLC.ISBN-13:9781943977963ISBN-10:1943977968UPC:9781943977963Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Memoirs, LGBTQ+ Studies, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Gay StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.354Product ID:SC6QB23YH0
Gauss, Marc: - MARC GAUSS lives in the Palm Springs, California area, where he co-facilitates workshops and retreats centered on sex positivity and authentic self-expression. An outspoken advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and sex workers' rights, he is committed to dismantling shame and redefining what it means to live freely. Marc is also an ordained Phallocentric High Priest.
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press LLC.
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