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Paul Landry Monette (October 16, 1945 – February 10, 1995) was an American author, poet, and activist best known for his books about gay relationships. [1] Early life and career [ edit ]
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End is a 1996 American biographical documentary film written and directed by Monte Bramer. The film is based on the life of gay writer and AIDS activist Paul Monette, who died from the disease in 1995.
Feb 12, 1995 · Paul Monette, a writer whose autobiography, "Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story," a memoir of suppressing and then celebrating his homosexuality, won the 1992 National Book Award for nonfiction ...
May 5, 2004 · Struggling to be or at least to imitate a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy, and unrequited passion, Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream—“The thing I’d never even seen: two men in love and laughing.”.
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Oct 16, 2020 · Poet, author and LGBT activist Paul Monette, known for his writing on gay relationships, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on October 16, 1945. Monette was educated at Yale University, it was in 1974 when Paul met lawyer Roger Horwitz that he accepted his sexuality.
Memoirist, poet, and gay rights activist Paul Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and earned a BA at Yale University. He taught at Milton Academy and Pine Manor College before moving to Los Angeles with his longtime partner, Roger Horwitz, in 1977, where he became active in the city’s gay…
Paul Monette was an American author and poet whose work often explored homosexual relationships and the devastating effects of the AIDS epidemic. He was best known for his autobiographies, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988) and Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (1992). After graduating from Yale.
Jan 1, 2001 · Paul Monette has written a memoir of the nineteen months he spent trying to keep his husband, Roger Horwitz, alive despite the AIDS virus. Written in 1987, it is an exhaustively documented tale of fighting for AIDS treatments, wrestling with homophobia and the stigma of AIDS.
Jun 28, 1992 · Paul Monette’s book illuminates what is at stake in straightforward human terms. Despite the pain that is its subject, “Becoming a Man” is not a downer. It redeems the awareness the closet ...
Feb 10, 1995 · In novels, poetry, and a memoir, Paul Monette wrote about gay men striving to fashion personal identities and, later, coping with the loss of a lover to AIDS. Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1945.
