{"id":38210,"date":"2016-05-26T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/dangerous-when-wet-a-gay-mans-struggle-with-booze-sex-and-his-mother\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T14:20:58","slug":"dangerous-when-wet-a-gay-mans-struggle-with-booze-sex-and-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/dangerous-when-wet-a-gay-mans-struggle-with-booze-sex-and-his-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous When Wet: A Gay Man\u2019s Struggle with Booze, Sex, and His Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dangerous When Wet: A Gay Man\u2019s Struggle with Booze, Sex, and His Mother<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/?attachment_id=314523\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314523\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/brickhouse.jpg?resize=740%2C551\" alt=\"Jamie Brickhouse Dangerous When Wet\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/brickhouse.jpg?w=1075 1075w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/brickhouse.jpg?resize=300%2C223 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/brickhouse.jpg?resize=768%2C572 768w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/brickhouse.jpg?resize=1024%2C762 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>TowleREAD is a regular audio feature in which LGBT authors read from their works. For this week&rsquo;s TowleREAD audio selection, we return&nbsp;to the memoir, and bring you a special excerpt from Jamie Brickhouse&rsquo;s critically-acclaimed book <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Wk0WhI\" target=\"_blank\"><span><i>Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and my Mother<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>,<\/i>&nbsp;which Josh Kilmer-Purcell of <i>The Fabulous Beekman Boys<\/i> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">calls<\/a> &ldquo;<\/span><span>a dark journey studded with gems of hilarity.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Brickhouse spoke with us about his reading:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Dangerous When Wet<\/i> is the darkly comic memoir of my long struggle with alcohol, my complicated relationship with my mother, Mama Jean, and my sexuality. From the age of five in small-town, Texas all I wanted was to be at a party with a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other and all Mama Jean wanted was to keep me at that age, her Jamie doll forever. A Texan Elizabeth Taylor with the split personality of Auntie Mame and Mama Rose, she was always <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">camera<\/a>-ready and flamboyantly outspoken. Mama Jean haunted me my whole life, even after I moved to New York City and no matter how deep in booze I swam. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In this excerpt, I reveal the halcyon days of my early childhood in Texas, when I was Mama Jean&rsquo;s constant companion and she was like a movie star to me. I appreciate her beauty rituals, long afternoons with her at the beauty parlor, and visits with her <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girlfriends<\/a>, as only a nascent homosexual son can. The alcoholic fate of one of her <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girlfriends<\/a> is an early foreshadowing to the dark days lurking in my future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Listen:<\/p>\n<p>You can pick up a copy of <em>Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and my Mother<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Wk0WhI\" target=\"_blank\">on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also buy any of the books we have featured on TowleREAD&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/towleread-20\" target=\"_blank\">in our store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>CHECK OUT THESE RECENT TOWLEREADS<em>:<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/03\/matthew-griffin-reads-new-novel-hide-listen\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><br \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/gay-conversion-therapy-boy-erased\/conley\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-313350\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/conley.jpg?resize=100%2C75\" alt=\"Garrard Conley Boy Erased\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/conley.jpg?w=1060 1060w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/conley.jpg?resize=300%2C226 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/conley.jpg?resize=768%2C580 768w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/conley.jpg?resize=1024%2C773 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/gay-conversion-therapy-boy-erased\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">Boy Erased: A Preacher&rsquo;s Son Recounts His Failed Journey Through Gay Conversion Therapy<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/03\/nc-governor-pat-mccrory-signs-bill-banning-lgbt-rights-ordinances-statewide\/downs-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307485\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/downs.jpg?resize=100%2C76\" alt=\"Stand By Me Jim Downs\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/downs.jpg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/downs.jpg?resize=300%2C228 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/03\/jim-downs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jim Downs Reexamines Gay Culture, History, and Sex in the 1970s in &lsquo;Stand By Me&rsquo;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/03\/murder-over-a-girl\/2_corbett\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-306668\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2_corbett.jpg?resize=100%2C75\" alt=\"Ken Corbett\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2_corbett.jpg?w=800 800w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2_corbett.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2_corbett.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/03\/murder-over-a-girl\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ken Corbett&rsquo;s &lsquo;A Murder Over a Girl&rsquo; 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Thanks for your ongoing support of Towleroad and independent publishing.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/dangerous-when-wet\/\">Dangerous When Wet: A Gay Man&rsquo;s Struggle with Booze, Sex, and His Mother<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=11G99u-FRL0:QqE99RsxVqo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=11G99u-FRL0:QqE99RsxVqo:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=11G99u-FRL0:QqE99RsxVqo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=11G99u-FRL0:QqE99RsxVqo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=11G99u-FRL0:QqE99RsxVqo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=11G99u-FRL0:QqE99RsxVqo:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=11G99u-FRL0:QqE99RsxVqo:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/11G99u-FRL0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/11G99u-FRL0\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/11G99u-FRL0\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dangerous When Wet: A Gay Man\u2019s Struggle with Booze, Sex, and His Mother TowleREAD is a regular audio feature in which LGBT authors read from their works. For this week&rsquo;s TowleREAD audio selection, we return&nbsp;to the memoir, and bring you a special excerpt from Jamie Brickhouse&rsquo;s critically-acclaimed book Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/dangerous-when-wet-a-gay-mans-struggle-with-booze-sex-and-his-mother\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dangerous When Wet: A Gay Man\u2019s Struggle with Booze, Sex, and His Mother<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dangerous When Wet: A Gay Man\u2019s Struggle with Booze, Sex, and His Mother - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/dangerous-when-wet-a-gay-mans-struggle-with-booze-sex-and-his-mother\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dangerous When Wet: A Gay Man\u2019s Struggle with Booze, Sex, and His Mother - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dangerous When Wet: A Gay Man\u2019s Struggle with Booze, Sex, and His Mother TowleREAD is a regular audio feature in which LGBT authors read from their works. 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