Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Buy on AmazonFrom the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love. It's 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of his dreams -- a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit -- just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast deserts, London fashion shows and Berlin sex clubs, dinner parties, back alleys, East Village hotel rooms, and San Francisco dives.…
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"As he proved in his 2021 book, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Jeremy Atherton Lin isn’t content to stay within one genre. His latest book blends his own love story with his partner, a British painter, with a history of LGBTQ+ activists’ struggle to win the right to intimacy with same-sex partners. The fact that this is often a deeply hilarious book doesn’t detract from the seriousness of its subject matter, and Atherton Lin’s unique voice is irresistible."
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