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Larry Mitchell


Born
Muncie, Indiana, The United States
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Larry Mitchell (1939 – December 26, 2012) was an American author and publisher. He was the founder of Calamus Books - an early small press devoted to gay male literature - and the author of fiction dealing with the gay male experience in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.

With Terry Helbing and Felice Picano, he cofounded Gay Presses of New York in 1981. His book of short stories My Life As a Mole won the 1989 Small Press Lambda Literary Award. Mitchell's novel The Terminal Bar, published in 1982, is considered to be the first book of fiction to address HIV/AIDS. The feature film Acid Snow (1998) directed by Joel Itman is based on Mitchell's novel of the same name.

He died on December 26, 2012 in Ithaca, New York after a battle with pa
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The Faggots and Their Frien...

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4.49 avg rating — 7,395 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions
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The Terminal Bar

4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1982
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My Life As a Mole and Five ...

3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions
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In Heat: A Romance

3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1985
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Acid Snow

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Great Gay in the Morning: 1...

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“The faggots have accepted all that they know and see as the way things are and so can no longer be shocked. The men live in the fantasy that everyone is like them and are so constantly shocked.”
Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

“Let's drink to the old faggots who were there and helped make this happen just by being there.”
Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

“The men believe that activity results from frustration and frustration results from never being able to get what you want. The perpetual out-of-reach. The men frantically scurry about with great schemes and much noise to try and reach the out-of-reach. Each tries to be the first or richest or strongest or most potent. Each compares himself to the others and each is always inadequate; less than first, not yet rich enough, or strong enough, or potent enough.
None of this leads to happiness, but then the men do not look approvingly at happiness. None of this leads to contentment but then the men care nothing for contentment. They fill their heads with inflated notions of total control and empire and strength and sexual conquest. They fill their bodies with meat and drugs and dirty air. And they rush about in a frenzy making messes and ugliness and fear everywhere.
And when they tire they sit with each other and lament and blabber how little they are appreciated and how hard they try and how nothing ever works out quite as they plan.”
Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions



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