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| − | [[File:Gypsy Boy.jpg|thumb|Front cover of ''Gypsy Boy'']]'''Mikey Walsh''' (apparently a pseudonym)<ref>Mikey’s not his real name. It’s a character from ''The Goonies'', the children’s film he watched over and over as a young boy. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/real-life-gypsy-boy-mikey-84547 ''Daily Mirror'', 11 October 2011</ref> is the author of ''Gypsy Boy'', an autobiographical account of growing up in an extremely patriarchal community, largely separate from the rest of society, with an violent father who wants Mikey to keep up the family tradition of boxing. He early realises he is gay, which would be completely unacceptable in the Gypsy society of the time. | + | [[File:Gypsy Boy.jpg|thumb|Front cover of ''Gypsy Boy'']]'''Mikey Walsh''' (apparently a pseudonym)<ref>"Mikey’s not his real name. It’s a character from ''The Goonies'', the children’s film he watched over and over as a young boy." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/real-life-gypsy-boy-mikey-84547 ''Daily Mirror'', 11 October 2011</ref> is the author of ''Gypsy Boy'', an autobiographical account of growing up in an extremely patriarchal community, largely separate from the rest of society, with an violent father who wants Mikey to keep up the family tradition of boxing. He early realises he is gay, which would be completely unacceptable in the Gypsy society of the time. |
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Mikey Walsh (apparently a pseudonym)[1] is the author of Gypsy Boy, an autobiographical account of growing up in an extremely patriarchal community, largely separate from the rest of society, with an violent father who wants Mikey to keep up the family tradition of boxing. He early realises he is gay, which would be completely unacceptable in the Gypsy society of the time.
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- ↑ "Mikey’s not his real name. It’s a character from The Goonies, the children’s film he watched over and over as a young boy." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/real-life-gypsy-boy-mikey-84547 Daily Mirror, 11 October 2011
