{"id":851,"date":"1991-09-07T16:23:45","date_gmt":"1991-09-07T21:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=851"},"modified":"2012-07-07T16:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T21:27:52","slug":"death-with-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/death-with-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"Death with Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0<a title=\"Read this issue online. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/glbtrt\/sites\/ala.org.glbtrt\/files\/content\/newsletter\/newsletters\/1991Fall.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vol. 3, No 3, Fall 1991<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/death-with.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-852\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"death with\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/death-with.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of Death With Dignity\" width=\"140\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Find in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/23919129\">Death with Dignity. By Jack Ricardo. Banned Books, 1991. Paper. $8.95. (ISBN 0-934422-34-4)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the small east Florida town of Rivera Beach, a chapter of Dignity, a gay Catholic organization, is\u00a0struggling for existence. Deacon Pete Jenco joins and the\u00a0chapter begins to grow. Deacon Pete is a rebel. He is\u00a0recently estranged from his wife; taken up with hustler\u00a0Scott; is actively supporting a group against the direction\u00a0of the church; and performed a para-liturgy using\u00a0consecrated wafers.<\/p>\n<p>Private investigator Jim Halden, after two years of\u00a0celibacy, attends his second meeting of Dignity and\u00a0discovers Deacon Pete&#8217;s body. Who did it? Deacon Pete&#8217;s\u00a0estranged wife? Sam, an organizer of Dignity? Bobby,\u00a0Sam&#8217;s partner? Schizophrenic Grant? Johnny? Sister\u00a0Sandra? Hustler Scott? Halden joins investigative forces\u00a0with police officer Hap Gannet. Gannet, unsatisfactorily\u00a0married, earlier had a three-month relationship with\u00a0Halden, which resumes in the end. The force of this book is not one of murder and detection. The strength of this book is its detailing of the relationships of the characters and their struggle to exist with Dignity. Recommended for comprehensive collections.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by <strong>David Streeter<\/strong><br \/>\nPomona Public library<br \/>\nPomona, California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0Vol. 3, No 3, Fall 1991.\u00a0 Death with Dignity. By Jack Ricardo. Banned Books, 1991. Paper. $8.95. (ISBN 0-934422-34-4) In the small east Florida town of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}