Maurice Vellekoop wins $10K Toronto Book Award for graphic memoir I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together | CBC Books
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"There was a lot of unresolved guilt and shame from childhood and the exact moment that I came out and started going to bars was when AIDS hit the world so there was a lot of just naked fear running amongst the community and for me, it was terrifying too."
"So on top of the guilt and the shame, there was that and then there was also this very narrow gay culture at the time in the '80s. Most gay men wore a moustache and a polo shirt and that was the uniform, right?"
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