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Book Review: Born to Be Public by Greg Mania

Taking us through his hook ups, sexual adventures, skirmishes with mental health and tender rejections of romance, a laugh out loud coming out story and his searching for reality and authenticity in a world which seems to be obsessed with image.

Born to Be Public

Greg Mania

In this wonderfully warm and funny memoir that’s searing & honest, Mania -pronounced mahn-ya except when out and about in Lower East Side New York drag circles – takes the energetic banality and excitement of his life – the child of Polish immigrants and a “pariah prodigy ” -and hammers it into a wonderful self-made suit of gilded ClubKid Queer armor. The author of internet hit Le Cabaret De Mania knows how to package it and then serve it up, Category is: Living a double life, Fiercely.

Mania takes his life and offers it up, feathers and all for us to giggle over, connecting just enough to keep it warm but going right out there on occasional with some reflective honesty to reminds us that he’s a real hurting human being and then holding our hand, walking us back out into the sparkling lights he loves so much and allowing us to relevel in the absurdities of modern metropolitan superdiverse American Queer lives.

Out now £18.59

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