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Burks, Ruth Coker.
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Burks, Ruth Coker.
Caregivers -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Nursing -- Biography.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Burks, Ruth Coker.
Burks, Ruth Coker.
Caregivers -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Nursing -- Biography.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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All the young men : a
memoir
of
love
,
AIDS
, and
chosen
family
in the
American
South
/ Ruth Coker Burks & Kevin Carr O'Leary.
by
Burks, Ruth Coker.
Grove Press, 2020.
Call #:
362.1969792 B959a
Subjects
Burks, Ruth Coker.
Caregivers -- Biography.
AIDS
(Disease) -- Nursing -- Biography.
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS
(Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780802157249 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Memoir
of
love
,
AIDS
, and
chosen
family
in the
American
South
Edition:
1st Grove Atlantic hardcover ed.
Description:
355 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
Other authors:
O'Leary, Kevin Carr.
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