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092 0  362.1 Burks|bengelska 
100 1  Burks, Ruth Coker|4aut 
245 10 All the young men :|ba memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen 
       family in the American South /|cRuth Coker Burks & Kevin 
       Carr O'Leary 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York, NY :|bGrove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic,
       |c2020 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates|billustrations 
       (chiefly color) 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the 
       hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is 
       painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will 
       tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other 
       side, all of them unwilling to help. Ruth immediately 
       steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the 
       young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what 
       she's done, word spreads in the community that Ruth is the
       only person willing to help these young men afflicted by 
       AIDS, and is called upon to nurse them. Shuttling from 
       patient to patient, Ruth forges deep friendships with the 
       men she helps: Paul and Billy, Angel, Chip, Todd and 
       Douglas, working tirelessly to find them housing and jobs,
       and burying their ashes in her own family's cemetery. She 
       teaches sex-ed to drag queens after hours at secret bars 
       and defies local pastors and nurses to help the men she 
       cares for, ultimately advising then-Governor Bill Clinton 
       on the national HIV-AIDS crisis and becoming a beacon of 
       hope to an otherwise spurned group of ailing gay men on 
       the fringes of an intensely conservative state. This 
       moving and elegiac memoir honors the extraordinary life of
       Ruth Coker Burks and the beloved men with AIDS who fought 
       valiantly for their lives during a most hostile and 
       misinformed time in America"--|cProvided by publisher 
600 10 Burks, Ruth Coker|xHealth 
650  0 AIDS (Disease)|xPatients|zUnited States|vBiography 
650  2 Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome 
650  2 Sexual and Gender Minorities 
650  7 Aids|2sao 
650  7 Patienter|2sao 
650  7 Aidssjuka|2sao 
650  7 HIV|2sao 
650  7 Vårdare-patientrelationer|2sao 
650  7 Homosexuella män|2sao 
650  7 Hälsa|2sao 
650  7 Palliativ vård|2sao 
650  7 Caregivers.|2fast 
650  7 Gay men.|2fast 
650  7 Health.|2fast 
650  7 AIDS (Disease)|xNursing.|2fast 
650  7 AIDS (Disease)|xPatients.|2fast 
651  7 Förenta staterna|2sao 
651  7 United States.|2fast 
655  0 Biography 
655  7 Biografier|2saogf 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast 
700 1  O'Leary, Kevin Carr|4aut