FROM: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-24-vw-2277-story.html
"_ROGER HORWITZ
“One feeling I have about AIDS is the more closeted the disease is in people like Liberace, the more people get to believe it isn’t going to affect them,” said Paul Monette, a Los Angeles poet, novelist and screenwriter. “But the tragedy has to see the light of day. It is a tragedy for all of us.”
When Monette’s lover, lawyer Roger Horwitz, was diagnosed with AIDS in March, 1985, Monette said their world blew apart. The two men had lived together for 12 years and had figured on growing old together.
“When we met, it was like we had been waiting for each other all our lives,” Monette said. “But then Roger was diagnosed, and your world ends when it happens. I kept saying, ‘You don’t have AIDS.’ They didn’t even have a test then to give Roger. But he had been feeling bad.”
Horwitz suffered a brief period of illness, then recovered and went back to work in April. “He was the third patient to go on Suramin (an early AIDS drug) at UCLA and he seemed to be getting along,” said Monette. “But I was falling apart. I couldn’t work. I was out of my mind. I was weeping. I wouldn’t write. I had an extended breakdown. But it started me writing poetry again.”
But by September, 1985, Monette said, the Suramin was making Horwitz sick. He developed pneumocystis and hepatitis and “was very close to death. His parents came from Chicago and they were extraordinary.
“I figured if Roger could hold on, we could get some Compound S, which was AZT (an anti-viral drug recently licensed for AIDS treatment) and we did. That gave him some of the next 10 months.”
Eventually, though, Horwitz was unable to fight the disease which rendered him blind, attacked his brain, and caused convulsions before his death on Oct. 22, 1986--one month before his 45th birthday.
“The last day when I got to the hospital, he had started to moan,” said Monette. “I couldn’t understand him. It wasn’t until January, seven weeks after he died, that I realized he was calling my name.”
These days, Monette, 41, is working furiously on a book of poems to be called “Love Alone.” “They are poems of grief,” he said. “They are tough and loving.”
He also is writing a book about Horwitz’s struggle against AIDS. “I want to tell it like it is, the story of the war, the heartbreaking story of one man’s life against this holocaust, this pandemic nightmare.
“I’m saying I need two years to tell this story. I may not have the next day. I had the test last June and I was positive. I’ve been on Ribovirin (an anti-viral drug) since September.”_"
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"_ROGER HORWITZ
“One feeling I have about AIDS is the more closeted the disease is in people like Liberace, the more people get to believe it isn’t going to affect them,” said Paul Monette, a Los Angeles poet, novelist and screenwriter. “But the tragedy has to see the light of day. It is a tragedy for all of us.”
When Monette’s lover, lawyer Roger Horwitz, was diagnosed with AIDS in March, 1985, Monette said their world blew apart. The two men had lived together for 12 years and had figured on growing old together.
“When we met, it was like we had been waiting for each other all our lives,” Monette said. “But then Roger was diagnosed, and your world ends when it happens. I kept saying, ‘You don’t have AIDS.’ They didn’t even have a test then to give Roger. But he had been feeling bad.”
Horwitz suffered a brief period of illness, then recovered and went back to work in April. “He was the third patient to go on Suramin (an early AIDS drug) at UCLA and he seemed to be getting along,” said Monette. “But I was falling apart. I couldn’t work. I was out of my mind. I was weeping. I wouldn’t write. I had an extended breakdown. But it started me writing poetry again.”
But by September, 1985, Monette said, the Suramin was making Horwitz sick. He developed pneumocystis and hepatitis and “was very close to death. His parents came from Chicago and they were extraordinary.
“I figured if Roger could hold on, we could get some Compound S, which was AZT (an anti-viral drug recently licensed for AIDS treatment) and we did. That gave him some of the next 10 months.”
Eventually, though, Horwitz was unable to fight the disease which rendered him blind, attacked his brain, and caused convulsions before his death on Oct. 22, 1986--one month before his 45th birthday.
“The last day when I got to the hospital, he had started to moan,” said Monette. “I couldn’t understand him. It wasn’t until January, seven weeks after he died, that I realized he was calling my name.”
These days, Monette, 41, is working furiously on a book of poems to be called “Love Alone.” “They are poems of grief,” he said. “They are tough and loving.”
He also is writing a book about Horwitz’s struggle against AIDS. “I want to tell it like it is, the story of the war, the heartbreaking story of one man’s life against this holocaust, this pandemic nightmare.
“I’m saying I need two years to tell this story. I may not have the next day. I had the test last June and I was positive. I’ve been on Ribovirin (an anti-viral drug) since September.”_"
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FROM: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-24-vw-2277-story.html
"_ROGER HORWITZ
“One feeling I have about AIDS is the more closeted the disease is in people like Liberace, the more people get to believe it isn’t going to affect them,” said Paul Monette, a Los Angeles poet, novelist and screenwriter. “But the tragedy has to see the light of day. It is a tragedy for all of us.”
When Monette’s lover, lawyer Roger Horwitz, was diagnosed with AIDS in March, 1985, Monette said their world blew apart. The two men had lived together for 12 years and had figured on growing old together.
“When we met, it was like we had been waiting for each other all our lives,” Monette said. “But then Roger was diagnosed, and your world ends when it happens. I kept saying, ‘You don’t have AIDS.’ They didn’t even have a test then to give Roger. But he had been feeling bad.”
Horwitz suffered a brief period of illness, then recovered and went back to work in April. “He was the third patient to go on Suramin (an early AIDS drug) at UCLA and he seemed to be getting along,” said Monette. “But I was falling apart. I couldn’t work. I was out of my mind. I was weeping. I wouldn’t write. I had an extended breakdown. But it started me writing poetry again.”
But by September, 1985, Monette said, the Suramin was making Horwitz sick. He developed pneumocystis and hepatitis and “was very close to death. His parents came from Chicago and they were extraordinary.
“I figured if Roger could hold on, we could get some Compound S, which was AZT (an anti-viral drug recently licensed for AIDS treatment) and we did. That gave him some of the next 10 months.”
Eventually, though, Horwitz was unable to fight the disease which rendered him blind, attacked his brain, and caused convulsions before his death on Oct. 22, 1986--one month before his 45th birthday.
“The last day when I got to the hospital, he had started to moan,” said Monette. “I couldn’t understand him. It wasn’t until January, seven weeks after he died, that I realized he was calling my name.”
These days, Monette, 41, is working furiously on a book of poems to be called “Love Alone.” “They are poems of grief,” he said. “They are tough and loving.”
He also is writing a book about Horwitz’s struggle against AIDS. “I want to tell it like it is, the story of the war, the heartbreaking story of one man’s life against this holocaust, this pandemic nightmare.
“I’m saying I need two years to tell this story. I may not have the next day. I had the test last June and I was positive. I’ve been on Ribovirin (an anti-viral drug) since September.”_"
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"_ROGER HORWITZ
“One feeling I have about AIDS is the more closeted the disease is in people like Liberace, the more people get to believe it isn’t going to affect them,” said Paul Monette, a Los Angeles poet, novelist and screenwriter. “But the tragedy has to see the light of day. It is a tragedy for all of us.”
When Monette’s lover, lawyer Roger Horwitz, was diagnosed with AIDS in March, 1985, Monette said their world blew apart. The two men had lived together for 12 years and had figured on growing old together.
“When we met, it was like we had been waiting for each other all our lives,” Monette said. “But then Roger was diagnosed, and your world ends when it happens. I kept saying, ‘You don’t have AIDS.’ They didn’t even have a test then to give Roger. But he had been feeling bad.”
Horwitz suffered a brief period of illness, then recovered and went back to work in April. “He was the third patient to go on Suramin (an early AIDS drug) at UCLA and he seemed to be getting along,” said Monette. “But I was falling apart. I couldn’t work. I was out of my mind. I was weeping. I wouldn’t write. I had an extended breakdown. But it started me writing poetry again.”
But by September, 1985, Monette said, the Suramin was making Horwitz sick. He developed pneumocystis and hepatitis and “was very close to death. His parents came from Chicago and they were extraordinary.
“I figured if Roger could hold on, we could get some Compound S, which was AZT (an anti-viral drug recently licensed for AIDS treatment) and we did. That gave him some of the next 10 months.”
Eventually, though, Horwitz was unable to fight the disease which rendered him blind, attacked his brain, and caused convulsions before his death on Oct. 22, 1986--one month before his 45th birthday.
“The last day when I got to the hospital, he had started to moan,” said Monette. “I couldn’t understand him. It wasn’t until January, seven weeks after he died, that I realized he was calling my name.”
These days, Monette, 41, is working furiously on a book of poems to be called “Love Alone.” “They are poems of grief,” he said. “They are tough and loving.”
He also is writing a book about Horwitz’s struggle against AIDS. “I want to tell it like it is, the story of the war, the heartbreaking story of one man’s life against this holocaust, this pandemic nightmare.
“I’m saying I need two years to tell this story. I may not have the next day. I had the test last June and I was positive. I’ve been on Ribovirin (an anti-viral drug) since September.”_"
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