A is for an alphabet relating to gay lifestyles, HIV & AIDS / by Paul Ryan.

Alphabet on versos (e.g. "N is for Nightmares"), illustrations on rectos. "The images in this book are taken from a collection of sketchbooks dating from 1985 to 1995. During a time of challenges brought about by confronting the new disease, AIDS, and the experience of friends and loved ones coping with serious illness and social prejudice, early in their adult lives. Still coming to terms with a minority sexuality along with the fears, excitements and dangers that entails. The mirrored cover indicates that we remain part of one humanity so long as we remember to see ourselves when examining the lives of others. The phrases accompanying each letter mix humour with more serious issues from a time before combination therapy offered the much more optimistic prognosis now available"--statement by Paul Ryan accompanying the work