Boy Culture (novel)

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Boy Culture
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Author Matthew Rettenmund
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