FOR FANS OF: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, the play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, and the musicals Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom by Jonathan Larson. INSPIRED GENERATION OF STUDENTS: Soehlien has been teaching up-and-coming queer writers for years & as LGBT+ rights are being attacked these students are eager to know more about those who fought for rights during the AIDS epidemic. A NOVEL WITH DEEP PERSONAL RESONANCE: In Army of Lovers, Soehnlein brings candor and moral acuity to an autobiographical novel about the author's time as an AIDS activist with ACT UP and Queer Nation in the late '80s and early '90s. Thinking back on those years, remembering everything he was grappling with at the time—what effect the AIDS activist movement had on a young man who was HIV-negative, and entering into a world full of people fighting for their lives. Why did he do that? What did he learn from it? A STORY OF LOVE AND CONFRONTATION: Unfolding over tension-filled protests, changing family dynamics, and simmering racial tension, Army of Lovers is an exploration of memory, community, identity, love, death, and justice.