1. Paul Landry Monette was an American author, poet, and activist best known for his books about gay relationships.
13 Facts About Paul Monette
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Paul Monette wrote and published several novels during this time period, starting with Taking Care of Mrs Carroll in 1978, which featured a gay protagonist.
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Paul Monette's most acclaimed book, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, chronicles Horwitz's fight against, and eventual death from, AIDS.
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Paul Monette describes the day as "the day we began to live on the moon," isolating himself from the reader in order to demonstrate the devastating loneliness that is felt among AIDS patients and their loved ones.
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Paul Monette wrote the novelizations of the films Nosferatu the Vampyre, Scarface, Predator, Midnight Run and Havana, as well as the novels Taking Care of Mrs Carroll, Afterlife and Halfway Home.
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Paul Monette wrote Afterlife and Halfway Home which were centered around people with AIDS and their families' experiences.
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Monette's final years, before his own AIDS-related death, are chronicled in the film Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End by Monte Bramer and Lesli Klainberg.
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Paul Monette died in Los Angeles, where he lived with his partner of five years, Winston Wilde.
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Horwitz and Paul Monette are buried alongside each other at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California.
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Shortly before his death in 1995, Paul Monette established the Paul Monette-Horwitz Trust to commemorate his relationship with Roger Horwitz and to support future LGBT activism and scholarship.
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The award's eight-member advisory committee includes Paul Monette's surviving partner, Winston Wilde and the writer Terry Wolverton.
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In 1993, Paul Monette was the first openly gay person to give his papers to the UCLA Library.
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In October 2005, the UCLA Charles E Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, in conjunction with the Monette-Horwitz Trust, celebrated Monette's life and work with a conference, dinner, and an exhibit "One Person's Truth: The life and work of Paul Monette," which was available online.