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Acid Snow
190 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1992
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Larry Mitchell
6 books42 followersLarry 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 pancreatic cancer. [wikipedia]
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 pancreatic cancer. [wikipedia]
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March 9, 2026
"It's just acid snow. Lovely acid snow killing everything it lands on."
An honest look into life during the aids epidemic and its effects on queer people's understanding of love and sex, of life and death. With the use of dramatic characters and political commentary Acid Snow reflects on everything that went wrong in the past and everything that will go wrong in the future. A must-read for queer people to understand and sympathise with those that came before us.
An honest look into life during the aids epidemic and its effects on queer people's understanding of love and sex, of life and death. With the use of dramatic characters and political commentary Acid Snow reflects on everything that went wrong in the past and everything that will go wrong in the future. A must-read for queer people to understand and sympathise with those that came before us.
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