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Bo Huston
(June 10, 1959 - May 1993) USA

Bo Huston

Novelist, short story writer

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Bo Huston was briefly a film student at New York University in the early 1980s, but withdrew from the program and worked in typesetting. Moving to San Francisco in 1987, he took a typesetting job with an advertising agency , but left the advertising job in 1988 after being diagnosed HIV-positive and devoted the remainder of his life to writing.

At a Christmas party of 1987, Huston met Dan Carmell, a young man of extraordinary grace and charisma, who could even tame cats on the street by talking to them. They became lovers almost immediatelly.

Bo Huston was a regular columnist for the San Francisco Bay Times , was a cofounder of the LGBT literary conference Out/Write , and published his first short story collection Horse and Other Stories in 1990. He followed up with the novels Remember Me in 1991 and Dream Life in 1992.

He was a three-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, garnering nods for Gay Debut Fiction at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1991 for Horse and Other Stories, for Gay Fiction at the 5th Lambda Literary Awards in 1993 for Dream Life , and for Gay Fiction at the 6th Lambda Literary Awards in 1994 for The Listener . The Listener also won the Gregory Kolovakos Award for AIDS Literature.

He died of AIDS-related complications in San Francisco, California. One further collection of short stories, The Listener, was posthumously published in 1993. After Huston's death, his spouse of 6 years Dan Carmell and lesbian writer Dorothy Allison coparented a child together.

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