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All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South / by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O'Leary.
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In 1986, 26-year-old Ruth Coker Burks visits a friend in hospital when she notices that the door to one of the patient's rooms is painted red. The nurses are reluctant to enter, drawing straws to decide who will tend to the sick person inside. Out of impulse, Ruth herself enters the quarantined space and begins to care for the young man who cries for his mother in the last moments of his life. And in doing so, Ruth's own life changes forever. As word spreads in the community that she is the only person willing to help the young men afflicted by the growing AIDS crisis, Ruth goes from being an ordinary young mother to an accidental activist.
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9781409189121
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Burks, Ruth Coker
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All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South / by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O'Leary.
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All the young men : how one woman risked it all to care for the dying.
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London : Trapeze, 2021.
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355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portrait ; 20 cm.
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In 1986, 26-year-old Ruth Coker Burks visits a friend in hospital when she notices that the door to one of the patient's rooms is painted red. The nurses are reluctant to enter, drawing straws to decide who will tend to the sick person inside. Out of impulse, Ruth herself enters the quarantined space and begins to care for the young man who cries for his mother in the last moments of his life. And in doing so, Ruth's own life changes forever. As word spreads in the community that she is the only person willing to help the young men afflicted by the growing AIDS crisis, Ruth goes from being an ordinary young mother to an accidental activist.
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Burks, Ruth Coker
AIDS (Disease) -- United States
Caregivers -- Biography
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States
AIDS (Disease) -- Nursing
Gay men -- United States
Single mothers -- Biography
AIDS activists -- United States -- Biography
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Care
AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment
Gay men -- United States -- Social conditions
Biography and autobiography
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O'Leary, Kevin Carr
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AIDS activists -- United States -- Biography
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AIDS (Disease) -- Nursing
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Care
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States
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AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment
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AIDS (Disease) -- United States
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Biography and autobiography
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Burks, Ruth Coker
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Caregivers -- Biography
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Gay men -- United States
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Gay men -- United States -- Social conditions
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Single mothers -- Biography
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