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The Front Runner is a 1974 novel by Patricia Nell Warren. A love story between a running coach and his star athlete, The Front Runner is noted for being the first contemporary gay novel to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success.
May 30, 1996 · by Patricia Nell Warren (Author) 4.6 205 ratings. See all formats and editions. Harlan Brown is a tough, conservative track coach hiding from his past at a small college. Billy Sive is a brilliant young runner who is homosexual and doesn't mind who knows it.
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Jan 1, 2001 · The Front Runner. Patricia Nell Warren. 4.12. 5,909 ratings451 reviews. First published in 1974, The Front Runner raced to international acclaim - the first novel about gay love to become popular with mainstream.
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Sep 13, 2012 · The Front Runner: A Novel Kindle Edition. by Warren Patricia Nell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.6 303 ratings. See all formats and editions. The New York Times bestseller about love and loss that stayed in print since 1974. Closeted gay track coach Harlan Brown has a shot at launching a talented distance runner to the Olympics.
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Jan 1, 1975 · Reader's Digest, a landmark lawsuit that resulted in a class-action victory for women. As a former amateur athlete, Warren helped lead a group of women distance runners who forced the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union, the then governing body of amateur sports in the U.S.) to change discriminatory rules in the mid-70s.
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Mar 19, 2021 · The front runner. by. Warren, Patricia Nell. Publication date. 1974. Topics. Track and field coaches -- Fiction, Runners (Sports) -- Fiction, Gay men -- Fiction, Gay men, Runners (Sports), Track and field coaches. Publisher. Beverly Hills : Wildcat Press.
Billy Sive is a brilliant young runner who is homosexual and doesn't mind who knows it. When they fall in love, they enter a race against hate and prejudice which takes them to the...
