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13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
Books shelved as gay-doctor-medil: The Doctor's Date by Heidi Cullan, Whisper by Tal Ber, Rock the Cradle by Ain Bat, Instant Fay by Ain B... * gay doctor novel *
(shelved 1 time as gay-doctor-medil). My novel The Prettit Star, set 1986, asks what happens when a gay, HIV+ man go back to the small town where he grew up. I wanted to wre a story that sh a light on an overlooked part of the AIDS epimic, those gay men who returned to the fai and muni that had rejected them, and on an tersectn we don’t see enough lerature: the queer and the ral.
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The geo, poignant tle story explor g of age as a young gay boy the mountas, a queer love story that ends not tragedy but wh a gasp of hope. Grimsley wr about the realy of homophobia and vlence, but also about the bety and tenrns and hols of a place, of young love: “They step to rt a ltle way si the fort unr a gkgo tree, s goln leav showerg round them as they get their breath.
GAY DOCTOR MEDIL BOOKS
Rafael, a young gay, HIV+ man, returns om San Francis, where he’s lost so many iends, to take re of his father.