http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20126018,00.html is an article about what it is like to grow up gay in America. It is located at people.com and was written by Richard Jerome. I think this could be very useful for readers before reading
This Boy's Life because David Sedaris is gay and a lot of the book relates to this. Readers knowing and understanding what it is like to grow up being gay would be helpful for establishing background information and a insights to his childhood. It also provides some very intresitng statistics such as estimates that 5-10% of United States High School students are gay.
For the media piece I would recomend this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBdymtyXt8Y&feature=PlayList&p=D8149242E63A684E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=24 it's kind of helpful to hear the author's voice and listen to him talk about stuff to get a feel for what he's like.
