But when it finally happens, two men in love can’t rejoice out loud-joy of the very thing everyone burns for-without bracing for the rant of prophets, the schoolyard bully, and Rome’s “intrinsic evil.” I try to remember that we fight as a ragged people to outlast the calamity so that others can sleep as safe as my friend and I, like a raft in the tempest. Not that freedom alone will serve it up: it requires the gods’ own fury of luck to get two people to meet. He wants every one of us to be all alone, never to find the beloved friend.Ī man ought to be free to find his reason. But the mission of the homophobe is more pernicious even than his morality. That the flesh and the spirit are one in love is none of the business of the celibate men of God, especially those who believe they rule the province of love. In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir chronicles the journey from the weeks before they met to Monette's heartbreaking loss. “Though gay men have begun to understand it is something in themselves these upright men so fear, too many of us have internalized their self-hatred as shame. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette ( 180 ) 11.99 An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss from the National Book Awardwinning author of Becoming a Man (Publishers Weekly). Paul Monette lost his partner, Roger Horwitz, in 1986.
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