John D’Emilio, Author at Public Seminar

Interviews

The Moment I Knew I Could Not Be a Priest

John D’Emilio discusses his new memoir, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood

November 8, 2022 • by John D’Emilio and Claire Potter

My three best friends in high school all went into the Jesuits after graduation. When I say they are my three best friends, the four of us ate at the same table every day for three years at school. So I had the sense that I wanted to apply to ...

And other memories of coming of age gay and Catholic in the sixties

October 12, 2022 • by John D’Emilio

I was flabbergasted. The idea that someone not only didn’t believe in God but also had grown up without God was something I couldn’t take in. All I could think was, “Wow. Without God, he’d never have to worry about whether he was going to hell, whether he’d make it ...