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1) Afterlife
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A powerful exploration of the way AIDS reshapes relationships and lives. Afterlife is a haunting and unforgettable story of men facing loss and seeking love, movingly capturing the moment in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was completely devastating the American gay community. Here, National Book Award winner Paul Monette depicts three men of various economic and social backgrounds, all with one thing in common: They are widowers, in a way, and all...
11) Such times
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Dining in a Los Angeles eatery after Dominick's appearance on a popular quiz show, HIV-positive Timothy and Dominick discuss their lives and AIDS and the friends they have lost to it
12) Full circle
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History professor Ned Brummel is living happily with his partner of twelve years in small-town Maine, when he receives a phone call from his estranged friend, Jack, telling him that another friend, Andy, is very ill and possibly near death. As Ned boards a plane to Chicago on his way to his friend's bedside, he embarks on another journey into memory, examining the major events and small moments that have shaped his world and his relationships with...
13) Was: a novel
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An account of the life and times of Dorothy Gael with, along the way, details about Judy Garland's stunted childhood and unhappy fame and her definitive role as Dorthy in L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.
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"Eddie Socket left a small town in deepest New Jersey, suffocating and eccentric parents, a name (Wally Jeffers), the gay-baiting years of high school, and the secluded unreality of college and headed for the city of Big Dreams: Manhattan. In his Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel, John Weir reveals how the heady promise of one decade was challenged by the unimaginable grief of the next, and how that earlier promise was preserved by bravery,...
17) Halfway home
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Halfway Home centers around the story of thirty-four year old Tom Shaheen, an actor living with AIDS in southern California who has been forced to retire, because of his illness, to an isolated beach house. Tom's peaceful existence is shaken to the core when he receives a sudden and unexpected visit from his brother, Brian, a former high school football hero who, well-loved and athletic, was Tom's exact opposite while growing up. Brian's visit turns...
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A Southern family's drama as a father witnesses the slow death from aids of his son. He hasn't seen him for years, the son having been forced by his black lover to choose between lover and family. As the parents are estranged the father tries to keep the mother away, wanting the son all to himself even in death.
19) Savage nights
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Despite his HIV status, it is hard to feel sympathy for Jean, the 27-year-old hedonistic, bisexual Parisian filmmaker protagonist, because he lacks the basic decency to tell 17-year-old Laura that he is HIV-positive when they first make love. Written in precise yet feverish prose, the novel is a study in massive denial. Jean lives in the sexual fast lane, taking anonymous lovers and having an affair with Sammy, a moody sadomasochistic hooligan who...
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"In the City of Shy Hunters opens in 1983, when William Parker moves from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to Manhattan, desperate to escape the provincialism of the small Western towns in which he has spent his entire life. Shy, afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will has been afraid of New York his entire life. In moving there, he learns the value of embracing one's fears, finding himself surrounded for the first time by people who...