Mr. Acton quoted Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
Andrew Holleran’s landmark novel of a young man's search for love and companionship in New …
Your novel might serve a historical purpose - if only because young queens nowadays are utterly indistinguishable from straight boys. The twenty-year-olds are completely calm about being gay, they do not consider themselves doomed.
— Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran (Page 7)
This is in a letter written from one character to another at the beginning of the book. It’s not irony, because the author published this years before the AIDS pandemic. (1977) Yet, 5-10 years ago this could have been written about many of the gay men never knew a (first-)world where HIV was a death sentence. (Hopefully, we can get back towards its eradication /ot.) I imagine this passage strikes many queer readers.