The Way from Me to Us
Published on 1. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-62601-657-6 (ISBN)
Description
Two men in love. A world ready for change.
THE WAY FROM ME TO US is the story of two pioneers. It's the true account of a love that began nearly 50 years ago in a Nashville gay bar called The Other Side. It was 1977, when coming out could mean you lost everything. Your job. Your friends. Your family.
Mike and Ted were all too aware of the risks at the bar that night. It was literally a step to the other side for Mike, who was nowhere near as accepting of his true self as Ted was of his. "I like being gay," Ted told him. "I'd like to find somebody who likes being gay with me."
Mike accepted the challenge. With no instruction manual, the two of them staked out a life together at a time when such things "just weren't done." Theirs is a story of two men battling the toughest challenges, some external, some that sprang from within. It's the story of the triumph of an undeniable love that has lasted nearly half a century.
This uplifting memoir will move and inspire you. It's living proof that, no matter how vehemently the world works against it, love wins.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62601-657-6 (9781626016576)
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Mike Coleman knew he had the writing itch when he produced a newsletter for his fourth-grade class at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tennessee. A journalism major in college, he later won awards for news writing, for his work as a writer for a nonprofit organization and for his work with an ad agency specializing in the technology industry.He also won awards as an independent writer, editor and branding consultant in the latter part of his 45-year career. During that time, he authored An Aquarium for Georgia: Commemorating the Construction of the Georgia Aquarium, a coffee table book commissioned by the Brasfield & Gorrie construction firm. He retired in 2020.He has had a lifetime interest in creative writing. His short story Worse than Murder took Honorable Mention in Writer's Digest's 74th annual writing competition in 2005. Another story, The Night Watch, is featured in the "Stories Worth Talking About" section of the children's story site Bedtime-Story.com.He and his husband live in Atlanta, Georgia. Mike writes frequently about their life and travels together in his blog at www.mikecolemanauthor.com.