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Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS

A memoir

A memoir

By Derek Frost

By Derek Frost

By Derek Frost

By Derek Frost

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    About Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS

    This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short; it’s also a love letter.
    Derek, a distinguished designer and J, his husband, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of both The Embassy Club, London’s answer to Studio 54, and iconic Heaven, Europe’s largest gay discotheque, met and fell in love more than 40 years ago.

    Their lives were high-octane, full of adventure, fun and fearless creativity. Suddenly their friends began to get sick and die – AIDS had arrived in their lives. When they got tested, J received what was then a death sentence: he was HIV Positive. While the onset of AIDS strengthened stigma and fear globally, they confronted their personal crisis with courage, humour and an indomitable resolve to survive. J’s battle lasted six long years. Turning to spiritual reflection, yoga, nature – and always to love – Derek describes a transformation of the spirit, how compassion and empathy rose phoenix-like from the flames of sickness and death. Out of this transformation also came Aids Ark, the charity they founded, which helped to save, amongst the world’s most marginalised people, more than 1,000 HIV Positive lives.

    This is a story of joy and triumph; about facing universal challenges; about the great rewards that come from giving back. Derek speaks for a generation who lived through a global health crisis that many in society refused even to acknowledge. His is a powerful story chronicling this extraordinary time.

    About Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS

    This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short; it’s also a love letter.
    Derek, a distinguished designer and J, his husband, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of both The Embassy Club, London’s answer to Studio 54, and iconic Heaven, Europe’s largest gay discotheque, met and fell in love more than 40 years ago.

    Their lives were high-octane, full of adventure, fun and fearless creativity. Suddenly their friends began to get sick and die – AIDS had arrived in their lives. When they got tested, J received what was then a death sentence: he was HIV Positive. While the onset of AIDS strengthened stigma and fear globally, they confronted their personal crisis with courage, humour and an indomitable resolve to survive. J’s battle lasted six long years. Turning to spiritual reflection, yoga, nature – and always to love – Derek describes a transformation of the spirit, how compassion and empathy rose phoenix-like from the flames of sickness and death. Out of this transformation also came Aids Ark, the charity they founded, which helped to save, amongst the world’s most marginalised people, more than 1,000 HIV Positive lives.

    This is a story of joy and triumph; about facing universal challenges; about the great rewards that come from giving back. Derek speaks for a generation who lived through a global health crisis that many in society refused even to acknowledge. His is a powerful story chronicling this extraordinary time.

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Philosophy

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Watkins Publishing
    Apr 13, 2021 | 288 Pages | 5-3/10 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9781786784964

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Philosophy

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Watkins Publishing
    Apr 13, 2021 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781786785008

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    Praise

    “This book is both a history and an inspiration.” - Matthew Parris

    “Incredibly vivid, moving, and compelling.” - Lord Chris Smith

    “This is a powerful book, at once a love letter, a well-informed history of the AIDS epidemic, and the life-story of a beautiful young man in London, moving happily through the early days of gay liberation into a time of widespread anguish and despair.” - Del Kolve, Professor of English Literature UCLA, CA, USA

    “Poignant and heart-touching.” - Linda-Gail Bekker, Professor of Medicine, President International AIDS Society 2016–2018, Co-Founder of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre and Health Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa.

    “Tells a story of living life to the full and giving back so much. Derek’s passion for life comes through on every page.” - Iain Anderson, Executive Chairman of Cicero/amo & Stonewall Ambassador


    “A moving and heartfelt account of two incredible people who are at once fighters, survivors and givers. . . .Running alongside the romantic and heart-warming storyline is a vivid recollection and reflection on important facets of the LGBTQIA+ and HIV epidemic experience, a history that is recorded and honestly told, lest we forget.”—Varsity

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