Episode 2803
Boychick (novel)
Sun, 2025-Jan-05 00:07 UTC
Length - 1:37
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Welcome to Random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia’s vast and varied content, one random article at a time.
The random article for Sunday, 5 January 2025 is Boychick (novel).
Boychick is a novel by American writer Leo Skir, published in 1971 by Winter House. The book is pederastic and centers on 28-year-old Leo Tsalis falling in love with Leroy, a 16-year-old boy he calls Boychick, after a brief sexual encounter.
Probably written prior to the Stonewall riots of 1969, journalist and activist Dick Leitsch understands the book as Skir's first credited novel. Skir, a gay Jewish-American writer and journalist, previously published at least one novel under a pseudonym and contributed to Jewish and lesbian journals about his identity.
Boychick has received little scholarly attention, and it was met with a mixed critical reception in the gay press. The novel's plot was both criticized as cliché and praised as an authentic expression of gay life in New York City by reviewers.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:07 UTC on Sunday, 5 January 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Boychick (novel) on Wikipedia.
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