Bruce Leblang, “a depressed gay man navigating his uncertain way through the limbo between youth and middle age”, has written a memoir of collected essays in December called “Finding My Place”.
Leblang, 53, who changed his first name to Judah, was in his hometown in Columbus, Ohio in April to give two readings at local bookstores.
“‘Finding My Place’ is a self-published work of ‘creative nonfiction’, Leblang said during an interview with Cleveland Jewish News, “that takes readers from Leblang’s mostly unhappy Cleveland childhood to the gay mecca of Privinceton, MA where the fair-skinned, hard-of-hearing writer tried unsuccessfully to fill out a muscle shirt.”
LeBlang, who is Jewish and worked as a sign language interpreter at one time, has a bachelor’s degree in deaf education and a master’s degree in administration, While living in Columbus, Ohio, he worked at the Ohio School for the Deaf.
Leblang, an avid sports fan of the Cleveland Indians, admits he “was scrawny in stature and sickly in health as a young boy. Even among his mostly Jewish classmates, he felt like an outsider, someone ‘carrying a fundamental sense of difference'”. During the interview, he also mentioned his uncle, Jerry who is hearing-impaired.
He currently works at Lesley University in Boston, MA and is known as a writer, teacher, storyteller and on-air personality. He resides in Medford, MA.
He did not come out until his late 20’s, he reveals in the book. The book can be ordered throughLake Effect Press at www.lakeeffectpress.com/
LeBlang’s website is judahleblang.com/
Source: www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2010/04/09/news/local/doc4bbe2438424d0795135551.tx
