Boy Culture (novel)
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| Author | Matthew Rettenmund |
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| Cover artist | Junie Lee |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 181 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-312-14553-5 |
Boy Culture is a 1995 novel by Matthew Rettenmund. It centers around 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. It was recently adapted into a movie by filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka, starring Patrick Bauchau, Darryl Stephens, Emily Stiles, and newcomer Derek Magyar as "X".
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- 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
