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WRG AIDS : GAY LERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND ANALYSIS

SUZANNE POIRIER, On Wrg AIDS LEE EDELMAN, The Mirror and the Tank - AIDS, Subjectivy, and the Rhetoric of Activism MICHAEL S. SHERRY, The Language of War AIDS Disurse SANDER L. GILMAN, Plague Germany, 1939/1989 - Cultural Imag of Race, Space, and Disease EMILY APTER, Fantom Imag - Herve Guibert and the Wrg of "sida" France RICHARD DELLAMORA, Apolyptic Utterance Edmund Whe's "An Oracle" PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER, Eloquence and Epaph: Black Natnalism and the Homophobic Impulse Rpons to the Death of Max Robson PETER M. BOWEN, AIDS 101 PAULA A. TREICHLER, AIDS Narrativ on Televisn - Whose Story? JOHN M. CLUM, "And Once I Had It All" - AIDS Narrativ and Memori Of An Amerin Dream JAMES W. JONES, Refg the Name - The Absence of AIDS Recent Amerin Gay Male Fictn JOSEPH CADY, Immersive and Counter-Immersive Wrg About AIDS - The Achievement of Pl Mote's "Love Alone" JAMES MILLER, Dante on Fire Island - Reventg Heaven the AIDS Elegy Timothy F. MURPHY, Ttimony FRANKLIN BROOKS AND TIMOTHY F. MURPHY, Annotated Biblgraphy of AIDS Lerature, 1982-91. * writing aids gay literature language and analysis *

The last third of A Long Gay Book rerds the disvery of the new realy. A Long Gay Book shows the drama of this new way happeng. The article appeared on page A20 unr the headle: “RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS.

If I had been ved to ntribute to that Elle piece, I would have offered, for my gay book, the memoir Beg a Man by Pl Mote. (When did you know you were gay?

Am I gay? When I was 16 or 17, I was wrg a play about AIDS bee to wre a play about AIDS meant to wre a play about a homosexual whout havg to say I was wrg a play about a homosexual bee I was not wrg a play about a homosexual, I was wrg a play about a Ser Social Problem. (Why would I wre a play about a homosexual?

WRG AIDS: GAY LERATURE, LANGUAGE AND ANALYSIS

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It’s not that ’s about homosexuals, ’s that ’s about AIDS, and AIDS is a Ser Social Problem. ” People would ask: “Why are you wrg about homosexuals and not, for stance, dg ers or people who had blood transfns? Lots of people get AIDS who aren’t homosexual.

The first awarens of homosexuals that I had was an awarens of people wh AIDS.

To be a homosexual was to be a pervert, and to be a pervert was to be punished, and the punishment was a slow, paful disease that would waste you away until fally, after pa and sufferg and huiatn, you died. This was a gay book wh a gay ver and I wanted that gay book and I wanted that gay ver and all the stori I’d told myself about the feelgs that ped my ntrol—stori of feelgs that mt be some passg hormonal phase, stori of feelgs that mt not be feelgs—all those stori, those nials, were sudnly aquate bee there was no other story that uld be told now, no nial strong enough to hi myself om myself, not after feelg this way about this gay book. Eventually, I would summon the urage to take that gay book out of the library.

WRG AIDS: GAY LERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND ANALYSIS

I remember buryg a pile wh other books (borg and not-gay), hopg the clerk at the circulatn sk would not notice the ver, would not thk I was takg out for any reason except the utterly banal or scholarly, would not wonr about my feelgs, my inty, my perversy, my fate.

) I brought this gay book home and hid unr my bed. I went to New York for llege and durg the first few months there, I told everyone I knew that I was gay.

WRG AIDS; GAY LERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND ANALYSIS. PAPERBACK – JANUARY 1, 1993

(Do you remember the gay bookstor?

Are there any gay bookstor left New York? “Where Have All the (Gay) Bookstor Gone?

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