My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

[profiterole_reads]

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson was very interesting. Trey, a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, starts being an activist with a rent strike, then helps dying AIDS patients and becomes one of the original members of ACT UP.

I love novels about activism and I need more of them. In this one, footnotes provide information about many significant figures of the period, in the United States. If you guys are interested about the French branch of ACT UP, I recommend the movie 120 Battements par minute (aka BPM in English-speaking countries).

Most of the characters are queer men. There is a lot of anonymous sex. Trey gets in an open relationship at some point, but it's only sexual, not romantic. There is also one significant lesbian character.

Comments

[aerodrome1]

Good entry.

[profiterole_reads]

Thanks, I'm glad it interested you. :-)

[haitangkitty]

I need to read this! I've seen BPM it was a great film. Thanks for the recommendation.

[profiterole_reads]

You're welcome. <3

[haebin]

That sounds like an interesting book. And at the same time, it also contains a very, very important topic.
Thank you for this tip!

♥️

[profiterole_reads]

You're right about this. <3