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All The Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks, review: astonishing, compassionate memoir of an Aids heroine

All The Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks, review: astonishing, compassionate memoir of an Aids heroine
The i
1/28/2021
Fiona Sturges
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In Little Rock with the lovely Miss Sookie Simone (left) and the lovely Miss Lena London, the reigning Miss Gay Arkansas 1991 Image from All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks (Photo: Orion Books)
Ruth Coker Burks never set out to look after Aids patients in mid-80s Arkansas. She had been visiting a friend in hospital in Little Rock in 1986, and happened across a group of nurses drawing straws over who should go into a room labelled “Biohazard”. None of them wanted to go near patients with “that gay disease”. ....

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Ruth Coker Burks on Her Five-Hankie Memoir of Caring for and Loving Gay Men With AIDS in 1980s and '90s Arkansas

Ruth Coker Burks on Her Five-Hankie Memoir of Caring for and Loving Gay Men With AIDS in 1980s and ’90s Arkansas
Jan. 13, 2021
Ruth Coker Burks, shown today, cared for hundreds of people living with and dying of AIDS in 1980s and 90s Arkansas.
Caroline Holt
As I read
All the Young Men, Ruth Coker Burks’ memoir of inadvertently becoming central-west Arkansas’ one-woman AIDS services provider in the dark years of the mid-to-late ’80s and early-to-mid-’90s, I could only think of the PTSD she and her then-young daughter, Allison, who accompanied her on her care visits, would suffer later in life. And indeed, when I spoke on the phone shortly before Christmas with Burks and her cowriter, the talented ....

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