Edmund White and his husband Michael Carroll, Brian Alessandro, and Igor Karash reveal how White’s coming-out classic, first published 40 years ago, was reborn with illustrations.
, which he was, and remains, eminently well-qualified to write about—and has done, including his time as an S&M slave to a much-younger master. AIDS and its devastation marks where the graphic novel ends in 1990. White was 50 at the time; a “slow progressor,” he has lived with HIV himself for almost 40 years, and has written about its impact, both personally and culturally, in many books.
The idea of the time switches, showing the trajectory of Stonewall, LGBTQ liberation, and the AIDS pandemic, was to give readers “something additional and unexpected to chew on,” said Alessandro. “It’s to show a panoply of gay men’s experiences through that time period—oppression, liberation, and devastation. Ed wrote
“Those on the right wander around needing objects for their fury. Gays are always good for that, I guess,” said White. Alessandro said three LGBTQ artists were too nervous to take the project on, because of its depictions of teen sexuality.
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