In 1992, Brian Francis placed a personals ad in a local newspaper. He was a 21-year-old university student, still very much in the closet, and looking for love. He received twenty-five responses, but there were thirteen letters that went unanswered and spent years tucked away in a box. Now, nearly thirty years later, and at a much different stage in his life, Brian has written replies to those letters. Using the letters as a springboard to reflect on all that has changed for him as a gay man over the past three decades, Brian explores such themes as body image, aging, the generational divide, the fantasies that sustain us, the risks we take in looking for love, and the cost of keeping your true self hidden from the world.
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