![]() Residency Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Go Out.Julius Eastman: Composer, Performer, Iconoclast.Coming to Terms with the ‘Gay Holocaust’.Marshall Moore, Expat Writer with Southern Roots.How Italy’s Anti-Mask Law Was Weaponized.Kenneth Williams Never Stopped Carrying On.Don Gorton, Boston Activist and G&LR Mainstay.Power Games Inhabit Guibert’s Last Novel.George Cecil Ives: Out Poet, Lover of Bosie.Inside Ukraine: An lgbtq Leader Speaks Out.Monette lived another few years, when he did the most important writing of his career. Relatively speaking, then, his melodramatic opening foray in the remarkable memoir Borrowed Time (1988)-one of the earliest and best books we have from inside a gay relationship devastated by AIDS-was an accurate assessment of reality. His lover of more than a decade, Roger Horwitz (1941–1986), survived nineteen months. Doubtless there’s a streak of self-importance in such an assertion, but who’s counting? … All I know is this: the virus ticks in me.” When Paul Monette (1945–1995) wrote those words, the average life expectancy of someone diagnosed with AIDS was less than two years. ![]() ![]() “I DON’T KNOW if I will live to finish this. ![]()
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