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Walt Loves the Bearcat
Walt Loves the Bearcat
Walt Loves the Bearcat
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Marcus “Bear” Coleman is a black, gay UCLA cheerleader in the 1980s. To cope with his own personal AIDS crisis, he dreams up a “whole other life” with Walt Yeager, a white quarterback who becomes the first openly gay, superstar athlete of their time.

Or ... is it the other way around?

Famous football player Walt Yeager’s male cheerleader husband dreams up a “whole other life” where the two never met, and Marcus must deal with HIV/AIDS — and his own personal demons — alone.

An epic, adventure-filled odyssey where serious issues like homophobia in sports, living with HIV, and race relations in America exist right alongside fantastical characters like Hail Larry, Evil Announcer Guy, and the Emergency Wife. Your ticket is your imagination.

A Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Romance

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRandy Boyd
Release dateAug 17, 2015
ISBN9781931875967
Walt Loves the Bearcat
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Randy Boyd

Randy Boyd’s four novels have been nominated for five Lambda Literary Awards. His writings cover a diverse range of subjects, including sports, politics, race, the gay community, HIV/AIDS, his dog, President Obama, and Trikke carving vehicles, much of it on his blog, Randy Boyd's Blocks. His fiction has appeared in Blackfire magazine, as well as the following anthologies: Certain Voices (Alyson Books); Flesh and the Word 2 (Plume); Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (Other Countries); Flashpoint: Gay Male Sexual Writing (Masquerade Books), MA-KA: Diasporic Juks (Sister Vision); and Freedom in this Village: Black Gay Men's Writing 1969 to the Present (Carroll & Graf). His nonfiction has been featured in the Indiana Word, Frontiers Magazine, Au Courant, The Washington Blade, The James White Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Lambda Book Report, BeyondChron.com and the anthology Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create (Dutton). Randy has also been a contributor to Outsports.com and the publications of the Black AIDS Institute.

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