Rat Bohemia in Queereaders

Sep 12, 2016 Akiva ꙮ rated it really liked it

Shelves: f-historical, f-queer, z-au-w, 3-fmt-f-novel, f-feelings-are-ineffable, f-activism

The Gentrification of the Mind was incredible, but Rat Bohemia gives the lowest point of the AIDS epidemic the emotional depth I'd never quite grasped from the facts. The mid-1990s New York City it paints is saturated with death and friendship and resentment and activism and politics and family and pain and death and death and death. ...more

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Dec 30, 2008 Adam Hodgins rated it really liked it

Shelves: queer

I'm so glad this is back in print I'm been trying to find this forever. My least favourite part is the back and forth section between Killer and Troy, but the rest was almost perfect. the Introductiono alone is worth getting the book. ...more

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Oct 27, 2009 Heather scarlett victoria rated it it was amazing

Shelves: queer-lit

Oh Sarah Schulman, you live in the East Village,

with the rats, and your moles. Your writing, among the

bad lesbian fiction, is the best.

Wont you take me for pierogis at Veselka once again?

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Jan 26, 2012 Sandy rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction, queer

There's no plot to this. It's basically character sketches of 3 gay people in New York in the 80s & 90s, each section told from the point of view of a particular character. The book is divided into 5 parts:
* Rita (a lesbian) - this section shows Rita suffering from New York angst
* David (a gay man) - David is dying from AIDS and talks some about his family and being angry about AIDS. This was actually pretty decent. In general I liked the David parts best of all.
* Killer (a lesbian) and her g ...more

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