Title: Eighty-Sixed
First published: 1989
Description: In 1980, B. J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.'s world has changed dramatically -- his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone is at risk, and B.J. is panicking. Parrying high-wire wit against unbearable human tragedy, Eighty-Sixed now stands as a testament to an era.
Subjects: Fiction, Jewish gay men, Patients, AIDS (Disease), Gay men, Fiction, gay, LGBTQ HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Aids (disease), fiction, collection:barbara_gittings_literature_award=winner