Publisher's Synopsis
"This fast-moving novel of gay San Francisco is a meta-fiction memoir told by a marvelously unreliable third-person narrator. Masked as a Covid journal, this pop-culture comedy, packed with dish, covers three years of strict quarantine disrupting the household of a married couple of gay elders aging in place. The longtime husbands are survivors of gay history from 1950s homophobia to their rowdy post-Stonewall life of fifty years in San Francisco. Their pre-Covid queer life flashes by in homosurreal memory scenes of magical realism, late-night noir films, and their own video diaries of friends lost to AIDS. The author keeps this tale of Covid lockdown, the New Normal, and gay marriage real and authentic with time-capsule headlines ripped from the pandemic news, the rise of MAGA fascism, and the great gay migration of Black Leather Swans to Palm Springs. This literary fiction takes the reader on a ride as entertaining as the author's awa
