Until my heart stops : intimate writings / Jameson Currier.

Until My Heart Stops -- What She Gave Me -- Stages -- Hometown Sweethearts -- On A Day I Am Not Myself -- Actors -- July -- Passing Grades -- Invitation to Dance -- The Last Minute Friend -- Rock Hudson's Vacation -- Isn't It Romantic? -- Threads -- Why I Live Where I Do -- Haircuts -- Desperado -- Caution-- Something From the Rain -- Between the Lines -- How Does My Garden Grow? -- Dates -- The Child in Me -- The Right Man -- One Way or Another -- Just Looking -- Friends -- That Summer -- Finding New Hope -- Behind the Screen -- Where You'll Find Me -- Strength -- Old Things -- What Comes Around -- Still Dancing -- Excerpts from a Stonewall Diary -- Funny Guy -- It -- Treats -- Art History 101 -- Dicks -- Lessons -- Glasses -- The Pot -- Writers -- A Personal History of the Epidemic -- Magic Carpet Ride --Buddies -- Remnants -- A Few Minutes with Liberace -- Twilight on the Esplanade -- What Did Not Change -- Do I know you? -- Lovers -- My Haunted History -- A Bookstore Tourist -- A Gathering Storm -- Hearts -- The House of Ten Thousand Temperatures -- Fifteen Minutes More.

Assembles more than fifty works of nonfiction written by the author over four decades, including many published during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The result is a searing personal and poignant memoir of an artist finding his voice during difficult times. Once again Currier doesn't shy away from revealing personal moments and emotions, this time his own, including his love and retreat from the theater, his grappling with boyfriends and long-term relationships, and the details into his own medical diagnosis of HCM--hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition of excessive thickening of the heart muscle for which there is no apparent cause or cure.