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Cover artist
  
Junie Lee

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

ISBN
  
0-312-14553-5

Author
  
Matthew Rettenmund

Adaptations
  
Boy Culture (2006)

OCLC
  
39845192

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
181 pp

Originally published
  
1995

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
United States of America

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Boy Culture is a 1995 novel by Matthew Rettenmund. It centers on a call boy in the city of Chicago, Illinois and his two roommates. The protagonist goes by X throughout the book in order to maintain his anonymity. In 2006, it was adapted into a movie by filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka, starring Patrick Bauchau, Darryl Stephens, Emily Stiles, and newcomer Derek Magyar as "X". Award Nominated writers Craig Hepworth and Adele Stanhope are adapting the novel to the stage, Boy Culture the play will open August 2012 in Manchester, UK and will be produced by Vertigo Theatre Productions.

Main characters

  • X is a male prostitute, and has been ever since he was young
  • Andrew is X's love interest and one of his two roommates
  • Joe, X's other roommate is a "seventeen-and-a-half" year old twink, who has a crush on X

    • References

    Boy Culture (novel) Wikipedia
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