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When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() It was just devastating, and for many of us it was a defining element to those years.” When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw shows queer people loved each other in the face of AIDS “I don’t think there’s anybody my age or older or a little bit younger than me – I’ll be 54 later this year – who wasn’t affected by HIV/AIDS in some very personal way. ![]() “I lived in New York all through the ’90s and the first half of the ’00s, and those first few years of the ’90s were really informed by AIDS in a saturating kind of way,” Tucker tells PinkNews. The result is When You Call My Name, a heart-wrenching novel following two teenage gay boys as they navigate life and love in New York City in 1990 partly inspired by Tucker’s own experiences as a young gay man. He jumped at the opportunity – he had often thought about writing a novel aimed at young adults about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. An editor from a publishing house reached out and asked him to write a novel about that era. Tucker’s thread took off and racked up thousands of likes – and then the unexpected happened. ![]()
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