I embrace this book so much because it's looking at something so horrific from our history and painting it in a oddly uplifting light. The main character is so charismatic and you just can't help but understand the fabulousness of these people and really humanizes them without it being such a sad and upsetting story.
Such Times (1993)
From Amazon.com: In this glitteringly stylish, haunting novel, Christopher Coe evokes both the charmed era of the 1970s and early 80s--when it seems possible for men to love each other without demands and with Dionysian abandon--and the years of loss that followed. Through the story of Timothy and Jasper's twenty-year relationship, Coe creates an inexpressibly moving portrait of people living on the razor's edge of desire, from the bathhouses of San Francisco to the waterfronts of New York and the streets of Paris, and offers a rapturous, bittersweet homage to those who now face death for having lived so exuberantly in such times.
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