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Michel Dorais – author of Rent Boys: The World of Male Sex Trade Workers, Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys and Dead Boys Can't Dance: Sexual Orientation, Masculinity, and Suicide – was awarded the Grand Prix du CQGL (Conseil québécois des gais et lesbiennes) at Montreal’s 2012 Gala Arc-en-Ciel. The award honours those who have advanced the cause of gay civil rights in Quebec.
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Rent Boys
The World of Male Sex Trade Workers
By Michel Dorais
Rent Boys paints a vivid picture of the men who service men in an urban Western context. Using interviews with forty young male sex workers, Michel Dorais analyses their differences in terms of self-esteem, control over their lives, relations to their clients, and risk of HIV infection. He insightfully and usefully breaks down male sex workers into four different types: outcasts whose drug addiction and prostitution go hand-in-hand; part-timers for whom prostitution is an occasional means to make money; insiders for whom the world of prostitution has become a family ; and liberationists whose prostitution helps them actualize themselves. Dorais analyses the risks these young men are subject to and presents useful suggestions for professionals wanting to help them.
Don't Tell, Second Edition
The Sexual Abuse of Boys
By Michel Dorais
Don't Tell examines the effects of sexual abuse on the emotional and sexual life of men, including their sense of self and their personal relationships. Using first-hand accounts, Dorais shows that certain reactions are specific to male victims as they attempt to preserve their physical integrity and conceptions of masculinity. He provides innovative strategies for both prevention and treatment that will be of use to those who have suffered abuse as well as to their families and all those who are trying to help them – spouses, friends, social workers, and therapists.
Dead Boys Can't Dance
Sexual Orientation, Masculinity, and Suicide
By Michel Dorais
Dead Boys Can't Dance is a ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five. North American society has been reluctant to recognize that there is a link between the social stigmatization of homosexuality and the high level of suicide attempts by adolescent boys who are homosexual or are identified as homosexual by their peers. By examining first-person accounts from teenage boys and young men, Michel Dorais and Simon Lajeunesse shed light on why some of them attempt to take their own lives.
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