![]() Like many queer kids, I learned about the world, and about myself, through books, gleaning unspoken possibilities about sexuality, gender, and masculinity, from characters like tomboy Scout and her “curious” friend Dill to the homoerotic greasers in The Outsiders. I grew up in a rural small town in Ohio in the years before the internet, before cell phones, before I came out as trans and queer or even conceived of such a life. ![]() I wanted to write a story that shines a light on an overlooked part of the AIDS epidemic, those gay men who returned to the families and communities that had rejected them, and on an intersection we don’t see enough in literature: the queer and the rural. My novel The Prettiest Star, set in 1986, asks what happens when a gay, HIV+ man goes back to the small town where he grew up.
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