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A resource book for an age that has, thank God, passed. This dates from when AIDS was the gay plague, and before antiretrovirals. I found myself thinking of it as a sort of appendix to The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS. This is a book for a particular time and place, for (I assume) British churches and ministries that acknowledged gay men as part of their cure of souls. I found it therefore tremendously moving, encouraging (in that there were people who actually could come up with a truly Christian response) and largely irrelevant. Because I am not convinced that this would translate well to the way that AIDS is a problem now.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7567228