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I finally finished reading the book series Don't ever wipe tears without gloves by Jonas Gardell a while back. It took me months to read because it's such a heavy subject (AIDS), I had to take a lot of breaks.
The first book is called 'the love', and it's definitely the happiest of the books, and the easiest read, though I did spend some time crying over those pages as well. The second is called 'the illness' and the third 'the death'. You can imagine they are... very hard to read. I also had to take breaks cus I got so pissed off at the blood relatives of several of the characters, and the newspaper headlines and articles that were featured.
The happy moments interspersed in between made me smile, too. But there was still enough painful things in it that I had to take many breaks.
It made me sad and angry to think about how this happened to a lot of people in the queer community, though not this exact way since it's fiction. But how the families of those who passed did everything to hide that they were gay after their deaths, that they died of AIDS, that partners and friends weren't allowed to come to funerals, things like that no doubt happened. All of that is what made it so difficult to read.
There's also a TV series based on the books, but I haven't watched it yet. I need a little bit more time before I watch that, I think. But I know I'm going to, eventually.
The first book is called 'the love', and it's definitely the happiest of the books, and the easiest read, though I did spend some time crying over those pages as well. The second is called 'the illness' and the third 'the death'. You can imagine they are... very hard to read. I also had to take breaks cus I got so pissed off at the blood relatives of several of the characters, and the newspaper headlines and articles that were featured.
The happy moments interspersed in between made me smile, too. But there was still enough painful things in it that I had to take many breaks.
It made me sad and angry to think about how this happened to a lot of people in the queer community, though not this exact way since it's fiction. But how the families of those who passed did everything to hide that they were gay after their deaths, that they died of AIDS, that partners and friends weren't allowed to come to funerals, things like that no doubt happened. All of that is what made it so difficult to read.
There's also a TV series based on the books, but I haven't watched it yet. I need a little bit more time before I watch that, I think. But I know I'm going to, eventually.