Paul Lisicky's new memoir, 'Later,' looks back at an era when hope stopped feeling pointless for a gay community under siege by a terrible disease.
Lisicky's memoir would no doubt be deeply affecting, but it is even more so for recalling that time of terror and frustration, when no treatment or prevention was available for a disease that causes prolonged, horrific death. The extent of loss and cataclysm to the gay community and their loved ones during that time surpasses words.
Moving to Town, a vortex of the AIDS pandemic, does not inflame Lisicky's furies, but instead serves as repatriation. Elsewhere, Lisicky has chronicled his mother's inability to embrace his homosexuality; his demanding, angry father; and his lifelong quest for his true self.finds him fully enmeshed in that quest. Town is home, but it is also utopia:"We can't live anywhere where the climate conditions are less than hothouse ideal.
He casts off his J. Crew chore coat and other buttoned-down clothing that caused him to"disappear" and adopts the look of the"subculture" in Town. He vows never to"wear an outfit that doesn't in some way insist: Butch, butch, I am too butch to live."
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