7/5/2023 0 Comments My government means to kill meA Black gay man on the cusp of turning 20, Trey indulges in bathhouse sex and sets about to have himself a good time, tomorrow be damned. But he has some fun speculating in his debut novel, “ My Government Means to Kill Me.” It’s the story of Trey, an Indiana native (like Newson) who leaves his wealthy family behind and moves to New York in 1985. Would I have been someone who donated money? Would I have been someone who worked at a hospice? Would I have been someone out in the streets with ACT UP?” “I wonder where I would’ve fallen in the world of protesting. “I’m Black and I’m gay and so I’ve always wondered what role I would’ve played,” he says from the Pasadena home he shares with his husband and their two children. The novelist and TV writer Rasheed Newson is 43, which makes him too young to have participated in the heyday of AIDS activism and the civil rights movement. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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