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1) Afterlife
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbor, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattans East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly and Jareds lives in ways none of them can...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships, and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals-Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism-come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois, a cultural journalist, looks back on this decade and on the ravages of the AIDS epidemic in Paris, a drama unfolds-one in which love turns to hate and...
Author
Publisher
Banned Books
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
A story of the battle against tyranny that remains as relevant now as when it was written. A group of friends living in Las Vegas are happy and successful: doctors, lawyers, journalists, and decorators. However, their lives go from utopian to dystopian when a law passes to allow the quarantine of those suspected to have AIDS. The government, in a blatant overreach, closes the Nevada border. Those tagged as homosexuals disappear in the middle of...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The son of one of the country's most powerful and conservative families falls for an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family from New Jersey, resulting in passionate but catastrophic romance that spans decades of LGBTQ+ social changes. "--
14) After Francesco
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, [an imprint of] Kensignton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Doyle, a gay man who lost his partner, Francesco, to AIDS in mid-1980s New York wallows in his loss and at a mind-numbing job before hitting rock bottom and realizing it is time to return home to Minnesota to start over."--
15) Philadelphia
Author
Series
Jet de Plaza and Janés ; 235
Publisher
Plaza y Janés
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
Español
Description
"Un vibrante alegato contra la discriminación social y laboral que padecen los enfermos de sida"--Cover.
17) The wages of sin
Author
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, Arc Manor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With the "Wasting" (HIV) creating a mid-nineteenth-century England and London almost unrecognizable to us, Viola, extremely intelligent and growing up in a house full of medical books, can only travel to far-off places in her imagination since her actions and movements are severely restricted by both law and custom."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the City, Trey meets up with...
Author
Language
English
Description
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and...
