num_pages: 294
description: A 2015 Reader's Favorite Finalist, this tale of sex, loss,redemption and pharmaceuticals in the modern AIDS era that will make you laugh, break your heart, and inspire you. Leslie L. Smith's #SFCPT is a coming-of-age story - a teenage gay runaway turned hustler, David Matthews, is on a journey to find himself and his community. Along the way he is visited by a ghost, meets a transsexual nurse, and experiences a budding romance. Together these events change David's understanding of the grief he carries. This witty novel is also a touching look at what it is to be gay in today's world.  It's also a saga about the last 25 years of gay sex and AIDS culture. Smith's characters look at difficult safer sex, barebacking, personal responsibility, and current HIV prevention methods - it asks why gay men bareback even though HIV remains a threat among gay men. Discover why the Bay Area Reporter says #SFCPT is "an irresistible page-turner, that is inspirational without becoming treacly."
language: English
title: Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual: Or I Was Cursed by Polly Holliday
publisher: PressLess, LLC