Don Beaudreau

Gay Tales Don Beaudreau

This is Donnie Beaudreau's definitive answer to those who have asked him that tiresome question throughout his life: "When did you know you were gay?" Conceived on May 28, 1944, he knew then. At the exact moment when a rogue Appalachian egg met the onslaught of a randy French Canadian sperm. Born into mid-century, lower middle class, uneducated, white-bread America, he developed into a city slicker hick, able to fend off suburban guerrilla Cub Scouts as well as his own moonshining kith and kin. This is one boy's explanation of why as an adult he now labels himself a "white trash intellectual macho gay male." The time frame spans his conception to his coming of age when his voice dropped-along with the first roller coaster he rode.