![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, a new boyfriend for Connor represents the promise of a sex-positive gay relationship that might make the pain worth it. Despite some minor anachronisms in the dialogue and in Michael’s understanding of how the virus is transmitted, Dunbar paints a broad and accurate portrait of the pain of the times through a series of emotional snapshots of a melancholy boy who longs for love, fears for himself and his brother Connor, who is also gay, and spends time with friends who are no happier. Michael haunts the edges of gay life with his best friends, James and Becky, who are Michael’s key sources of information about the growing threat of AIDS, James through experiences with dying friends that have made him opt for celibacy and Becky through her boyfriend’s mother, who is a nurse. ![]() Michael is coming of age as a gay high school junior in New York City in 1983 it’s an exciting time wherein he can dance away his anxiety and meet a cute boy at a club, but friends of friends are dying of a mysterious disease that seems to be targeting gay men, and acts of violence against gay people are escalating. ![]()
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