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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: All the young men
    sub title: a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
  name:
    name part: Burks, Ruth Coker
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: O'Leary, Kevin Carr
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling to help. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's done, word spreads in the community that Ruth is the only person willing to help these young men afflicted by AIDS, and is called upon to nurse them. Shuttling from patient to patient, Ruth forges deep friendships with the men she helps: Paul and Billy, Angel, Chip, Todd and Douglas, working tirelessly to find them housing and jobs, and burying their ashes in her own family's cemetery. She teaches sex-ed to drag queens after hours at secret bars and defies local pastors and nurses to help the men she cares for, ultimately advising then-Governor Bill Clinton on the national HIV-AIDS crisis and becoming a beacon of hope to an otherwise spurned group of ailing gay men on the fringes of an intensely conservative state. This moving and elegiac memoir honors the extraordinary life of Ruth Coker Burks and the beloved men with AIDS who fought valiantly for their lives during a most hostile and misinformed time in America"--
  target audience: adult
  note: Ruth Coker Burks & Kevin Carr O'Leary.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Burks, Ruth Coker
  subject:
    topic: Caregivers
    geographic: Southern States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
    topic: Patients
    geographic: Southern States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Young gay men
    geographic: Southern States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
    topic: Nursing
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    topic: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
  subject:
    topic: Caregivers
  subject:
    topic: Sexual and Gender Minorities
  subject:
    topic: Sidéens
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Aidants naturels
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuels masculins
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Sida
    topic: Soins infirmiers
  subject:
    topic: Sida
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
    topic: Nursing
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
    topic: Patients
  subject:
    topic: Caregivers
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
  subject:
    topic: Health
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HIV/AIDS
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
  subject:
    topic: Sexual minorities
  subject:
    topic: Men
  subject:
    topic: LGBTQ+ people
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Caregivers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
  classification: RC606.55.B87 A3 2020
  classification: 362.19697/920092 B
  classification: WZ 100
  identifier: 9780802157249
  identifier: 0802157246
  identifier: 9780802157263
  identifier: 2020043724
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201008
    record change date: 20230424161334.6
    record identifier: in00004664771
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng