Love Alone

From Paul Monette’s Love Alone to John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1 to Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes to the courage with which American tennis star Arthur Ashe publicly lived his final days after acquiring AIDS from a blood transfusion—those, as much as…

…and in the poetry collection Love Alone (1988), which featured elegies for Horwitz. Monette’s relationship with Horwitz also formed the basis of Borrowed Time, a moving account of his companion’s death that was a critical and commercial success. In Becoming a Man, Monette described his early struggles with his sexuality…