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This book brings together thirty gay men including the author. These men were his friends and lovers at various points in time while Miles was living in Ithaca, New York, and New York City. It takes place in the gay party years of the 1970s and 1980s before AIDS hit. It is a fictionalized queer memoir based largely on real persons and events. It is a loosely chronological series of mainly autobiographical vignettes. The common threads are Miles’s through viewpoint, his interest in queer sex and the extraordinary inner beauty of each man. Only Miles and the reader can comprehend the whole picture, the larger story of individual and communal maturation and self-discovery. Many of these men and the places they once occupied are no longer here today, but all were once at the center of Miles’s life. Hopefully these shared stories will form a small piece of gay history that future generations of LGBTQ persons can embrace. This book is dedicated to the memory of all the good brave men and women who battled AIDS with grace.

Miles Cigolle grew up in a classic adobe house near Albuquerque’s historic Old Town with his parents and three siblings. His mother Terry was a ceramicist and a fine arts painter. His father Edward was a local grocer catering equally to the local Native Americans, Hispanics and Anglos with his two brothers. Miles studied architecture at Cornell University and went on to practice architecture for twenty-five years with distinguished New York City firms including Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Richard Meier & Partners. He met his future husband Abbey on Memorial Day in 1982 in a leather bar in New York’s Meat Packing District. Abbey was a Stonewall baby. The couple returned to quiet Ithaca, New York in 2000. Miles worked on local higher education projects while Abbey joined the Finger Lakes Land Trust. They retired to New Mexico in 2016. Miles’s first memoir, Miles’s World, was published by Secord Books in 2021. Three subsequent memoirs, Reckoning, Places and Faces and Upon Arrival, were published by Sunstone Press.

Softcover:
6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-63293-778-0
86 pp.,$19.95

eBook:
ISBN: 978-1-61139-799-4
86 pp.,$4.99