Dec 26, 2003 23:47
Spent all day reading Holding The Man by Timothy Conigrave... I finished it too.. My God! I read a 286 page book, in one day! Hahha.. I was so proud of myself. It was so sad though. By the end of the book, I was crying my eyes out.
It was a true story about Tim, who grew up gay in the 70's and found his the boyfriend of his dreams, John. They spent 15 years together, until John died of AIDS. They both had AIDS, and I doubt if Timothy is still alive anymore, as it was written about 10 years ago. But they grew up without any education on safe sex, and AIDS was only discovered during the 80's, and it was too late by then. It was an awfully sad story. I suggest everyone go get it...
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