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JD Vance’s boyhood mistaken same-sex attracted confession story smacks of head-spinning inflation

Political Mercury

By Douglas Burns

1/1/2025

In reading the-then (and now-again) publishing sensation “Hillbilly Elegy” eight years ago as it announced a culture-crashing modern voice, I found myself stopping at points in the book, both enraged and doubtful of its author’s authenticity.

I’d intended to fiercely pan “Hillbilly Elegy” in reviews, but I was persuaded then that JD Vance was an honest-intentioned guy with a platform who could lift rural reaches of the nation like my hometown of Carroll.

What’s more, Vance is a gifted writer, and the narrative pace of “Elegy” kept me hooked. But the suggestions, in the book itself and reviews, that rural America is some sort of monolith infuriated me. Southern reaches of Ohio are not western Iowa. Our economies and people and cultures are vastly different.

I do know salty-dog, sailor-mouthed, world-weary, seen-it-all rural women like his grandmother, Bonnie Blanton, a defining figure in Vance’s life whom he affectionally called “Mamaw.” Vance peppered his Republican National Convention speech with

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JD Vance once wrote that he 'convinced myself that I was gay' when he was a kid

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  • JD Vance wrote in "Hillbilly Elegy" that he once became convinced  he was male lover when he was a kid.
  • "The only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women," he wrote.
  • His grandmother quickly lay that notion to remain, asking him: "JD, do you want to suck dicks?"

According to Sen. JD Vance's best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy," the Ohio senator once told his grandmother that he thought he might be gay.

Vance, now former President Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee, recounted the tale in his 2016 autobiography as he discussed his grandmother's relatively tolerant approach when it came to Christian teachings.

In Vance's telling, the episode occurred when he was just a kid. As he wrote:

"I'll never forget the occasion I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine,

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    “In the predominantly working-class and sometimes rural spaces where Powell’s straight and gay characters cavort together, shoot the shit, or knock each other to the soil, homophobia can exist alongside friendliness and hospitality toward gays, and anti-homophobia can reinforce patriarchy.”

    Padgett Powell has a habit of saying provocative things, and one such line that struck me was, “I am gay in every way except the sex.” While an undergraduate at the University of Florida, where Powell teaches creative writing, I thought he was trying to charm people like his colleague David Leavitt and myself (we are both gay, including the sex). Powell’s experience and fiction are hyper-masculine and southern, and it is reasonable to dispute that they are not considered paragons of homosexual culture. At the university, he is known for filling stews with the squirrels and raccoons that try to infiltrate his chicken pen. Typical, his first story collection, is built on references to dogfighting, whorehouses, chewing tobacco, trucking pulpwood, “miscegenational pimps,” guys drinking beer while picking loot out of floodwaters, and characters who think all women are

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